Aunar criterios en un sistema fragmentado. Tensiones en torno a evaluación de la investigación aplicada y el desarrollo tecnológico en el origen de los Proyectos de Desarrollo Tecnológico y Social.

Abstract

The Technological and Social Development Projects (PDTS) emerged as a response derived to the problem of academic evaluation in Argentina. Its emergence dates from the commissions convened by the then Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation in 2011 and 2012 that sought to review the evaluation parameters of the scientific task. The analysis that follows recovers over fifty interviews carried out with key actors of the process of the aforementioned scientific policy tool (officials, project managers, research teams, members of the PDTS Nacional Bank accrediting committees, members and coordinators of the special commissions of CONICET that evaluate requests for promotion and reports of researchers involved in PDTS) as well as a detailed documentary revision of forms of application, evaluation criteria documents, procceding and includes an updated bibliographical revision and analysis of scientific policies. In our analysis we highlight the awareness of officials about the importance of the evaluation criteria to address the problem of the lack of applied and technological research. The generation of instances of dialogue and articulation in a highly fragmented scientific system was another interesting effect of the process.