Política científica e identidades institucionales en la universidad.

Federico Vasen

doi:10.48160/18517072re39.627

Authors

Federico Vasen IESCT-UNQ / CONICET

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48160/18517072re39.627

Keywords:

university, science policy, autonomy, bureaucratization, institutional identity

Abstract

Science and technology policy are usually analyzed as public policies originated in governmental agencies. There are however also initiatives to fund research and development at the institutional level in universities. Drawing on theoretical literature and a case study of Argentina’s biggest higher education institution, in this article we aim to propose three key issues for analysis for university research policies. The first relates to the place of research in the definition of the universities’ institutional identity and involves the tension between scientific and professional university. The second addresses the issue of institutional “operational freedom”, with regard both externally to its sponsor and internally to its form of internal governance. Tensions emerge in this case between autonomy, interventionism and bureaucratization. The third point deals with the social appropriation of research outcomes. The opposition here is between the new pro-commercialization academic ethos and the view of university as the place for social critique. Finally, we conclude that the analysis of research policies at the university level should consider its specific characteristics with regard to the identities at play and the distribution of power between stakeholders in the institutional governance.

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