Abstract
Esse artigo consiste numa análise da legislação que instituiu o programa Fundos Setoriais, nos anos 1990/2000. O objetivo é caracterizar os componentes e estratégias iniciais do programa, bem como seu papel no contexto das políticas de C,T&I (Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação) na época. Cabe dizer que não olharei para essa legislação como um jurista ou analista de políticas públicas, que nela veriam uma estrutura de atos normativos ou um instrumento de governança estatal. Enquanto antropólogo, procurarei nessa estrutura jurídica um discurso, ou seja, a defesa de uma certa concepção de ciência. Interessa-me o fato de que tal legislação registra e, ao mesmo tempo, agencia a construção de uma episteme, isto é, uma nova visão sobre ciência, sobre conhecimento e sobre os arranjos necessários para conectá-los à sociedade. O debate teórico de fundo desse artigo deriva da antropologia da ciência, que nos oferece uma visão sobre ciência e episteme necessária para a prossecução das análises.
Highlights
Between the late 1990s and early 2000s, the so-called Sectoral Funds were created in Brazil
What is understood as science when one seeks to put it at the service of economic development? What kind of speech can we identify in the regulatory structure of the Sectoral Funds? I will argue that innovation policies can be defined as epistemic policies, alluding to what Karin Knorr-Cetina called epistemic cultures
The construction of the normative structure of the Sectoral Funds went through several stages: first came CT-Petro, inaugurating new mechanisms of collection and management of resources for science and technology (S&T)
Summary
Between the late 1990s and early 2000s, the so-called Sectoral Funds were created in Brazil. The thesis here is that, by conforming a certain view on science, knowledge and their relations with the public interest and economic development, these policies influence (or may influence) our own epistemes, that is, “how we know what we know” (KNORR-CETINA, 1999) To achieve these goals, two objects will be analysed: the first is the document “The Acceleration of the National S&T Effort” – prepared in 1999 by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT) –, which proposed the creation of the Sectoral Funds. It is rather a question of assuming the importance of correlations of science with its social and political environment for the formation of these epistemes All these ideas converge in the thesis that epistemes – scientific practices, modes of knowledge production – are variable, diverse, heterogeneous, and change throughout history and in comparison with sciences, precisely because they are built in relation to the social and political environment, that is, they are not autonomous or separate from power, history, society and culture.
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