Science from a small peripheric nation.
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https://doi.org/10.48160/18517072re8.813Keywords:
small peripheric countries, Latin America, science, technologyAbstract
New trends in the generation of knowledge -directly influenced by globalization and the new technological revolution- interfere with contributions from small peripheric Latin American countries (SPC) to the development of a regional identity in the field of science and technology. Scientific development of a regional identity is usually conditioned by the fact that research is not an item in the agenda of important domestic problems. Similarly, the research agenda is created -implicitly rather than explicitly- without assigning weigth upon the purpose of contibuting to the development of a scientific identity of their own. However, certain "alternative scenarios" -characterized by noticiable advances towards the building of their own identity in S&T- can be created starting from the convergence of three types of factors: first, true opportunities that the PPP may find among the great mutations currently in progress on an international scale; second, an outline of strategies aimed at promoting and assessing specific research projects; and third, the generation of certain initiatives apt to give rise to a wide support among researchers and instill some real life into their communities. Finally, in order to construct this identity, a project of regional scope is required.
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