Title: Science and technology policy in transition: new challenges for Cardoso's legacy

Authors: Noela Invernizzi

Addresses: Casilla de Correos 128, CP 98.000 Zacatecas, ZAC., Mexico

Abstract: Brazil has a well-developed scientific and technological capabilitiy within industrialising countries. However, this capability has not been translated into social development. The new Brazilian Worker|s Party government considers it urgent to develop an S&T agenda oriented to the country|s social development. I argue that the new government faces two types of difficulties in pursuing this goal. First, the new government|s science and technology policies oppose, to a certain extent, the ideological foundations and the institutional structure of the S&T enterprise inherited from former President F.H. Cardoso|s administration. Second, the Worker|s Party|s nationalistic development goals including building technological autonomy, have to confront the strong presence of foreign capital in hi-tech sectors and an accelerated increase in technological dependency during the last ten years.

Keywords: Brazil; science policy; technology policy; innovation; social development; F.H. Cardoso; L.I. da Silva; Worker|s Party; technological autonomy; technological dependency; government policy.

DOI: 10.1504/IJTG.2005.007049

International Journal of Technology and Globalisation, 2005 Vol.1 No.2, pp.162 - 184

Published online: 14 May 2005 *

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