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Latin American Science and Technology Policy: New Scenarios and the Research Community

IG-UNICAMP, CP 6512,13083-970, Campinas, Brazil

Hernan Thomas

Mexico 671 20-Dpto 15, CP 1097, Buenos Aires, Argentina

The paper begins by analysing the antecedents of the transformations now being faced by the Latin American Science and Technology Policy (STP). A parallel with the STPs of advanced countries is drawn in order to make explicit some aspects that have barely reached the notice of the Latin American research community. Based on a forecasting approach, which implies introducing in science and technology (S&T) decision-making, satisfaction of social demands, the paper suggests some of the implications of this scenario. Besides many other requisites, now hardly feasible for the reorientation of STP, the paper emphasises the importance of a viable and unilateral first step: the resignification of the research community.

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