Enfoques sobre política de ciencia y tecnología en los años noventa: viejos modelos y nuevas experiencias.

Martin Bell

doi:10.48160/18517072re5.657

Authors

Martin Bell Science Policy Research Unit. Universidad de Sussex, Inglaterra.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48160/18517072re5.657

Keywords:

science and technology policy, science, technology

Abstract

Most of the intellectual framework and the institutional structure for scientific and technological policies used by industrializing countries was developed in the 1960's and 1970's. Beyond the current diversity of procedures and practices concerning scientific and technological policy it is possible to recognize three features which point towards the same inspirational model. First of all, the embracing of policies in science and technology which have had as their core R+D. Secondly, the operating agents whose activities were to be influenced by policy have usually been specialized S and T institutions. Thirdly, S and T policy has come to be seen primarily as the responsibility of a specialized government institution, in charge of the unity and centralization of such policy. This article suggests that it is time to question these and other key features of the S and T policy model, based on two reasons: first, experiences inside the region seem to suggest the need for new approaches; second, experience drawn primarily from outside the region suggests that the institutional and intellectual legacy of the 1960s and 1970s may no longer be appropriate for the 1990s.

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