Abstract

Contesting the Mainstream Narrative? A Conceptual Discussion on the Politics of Science, Technology, and Innovation from the Periphery

Highlights

  • Several political events and the economic environment from the very 1970s onward created changes and cyclical pressures in favor of a common set of rationalities that began to influence the ‘discursive space’ of Technology and Innovation] (Science) and Technology (S&T) policies.[1,2] Encouraged by the Japanese case and the predominance of economic culture, the orientation of the Science and Technology (S&T) policy in many countries began to place “emphasis on industrial innovation and technological forecasting”.[3]

  • Encouraged by the Japanese case and the predominance of economic culture, the orientation of the S&T policy in many countries began to place “emphasis on industrial innovation and technological forecasting”.[3]. It has been a pervasive trend in most national science policy cases from the 1980s/1990s, increasingly assumed within the European integration and during the transition to the 2000s.[4,5]

  • The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has engaged in constructing organized science narratives and the sodemanded statistics that would serve as the leading indicators for the S&T policy area.[61]

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INTRODUCTION

Several political events and the economic environment from the very 1970s onward created changes and cyclical pressures in favor of a common set of rationalities that began to influence the ‘discursive space’ of Science and Technology (S&T) policies.[1,2] Encouraged by the Japanese case and the predominance of economic culture, the orientation of the S&T policy in many countries began to place “emphasis on industrial innovation and technological forecasting”.[3]. The OECD has engaged in constructing organized science narratives and the sodemanded statistics that would serve as the leading indicators for the S&T policy area.[61] experiments of technology forecasting and funding schemes for research by contract programs were part of an international policy implementation trend On his hand, the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) strongly influenced many countries, peripheral underdeveloped nations including Latin America ones, recommending countries to build a ‘proper’ scientific infrastructure, contributing to the institutionalization process of STI policy, generating rationales within the logic of ‘howto’ handbooks and so on.

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