The rise in Argentina of policies for scientific-scholar and productive sectors linkages (1983-1990).

Abstract

This paper analyzes the process of arising of public and institutional policies focused on promotion and regulation of linkages between scientific and productive sectors in Argentina, spanning from 1983 (date of the restoration of democracy) to 1990 (date of the enactment of the Law for “Promotion and Support of Technological Innovation”). The article portrays the political and intellectual climate in which the issue of “university-industry linkages” came into public agenda; and describes the context where the government agencies that pioneered implementing these policies were created. In this regard, we scrutinize the role played by international experts in the design of local policies, emphasizing continuities and ruptures between discourse and proposals conceived at the 1983-1990 span; and previous understandings at the country, about the role of scientific knowledge generation at the productive processes. This is a descriptive work, aimed to organize and systematize basic texts and identifying relevant actors at the time as well as allowing spotting core problems for the analysis of “university-industry linkages” public policies throughout the decade of 1980 in Argentina.