Cerveza, ciencia y tecnología. Redes sociotécnicas entre un laboratorio académico, una corporación de cerveza y cerveceros artesanales en San Carlos de Bariloche

Abstract

This work explores and analyzes sociotechnical networks and interactions between academia and industry. It deals with the configuration of networks and interactions between craft brewers and a beer corporation with a microbiology research group based in San Carlos de Bariloche. The article cover the period 2000 to 2019 and has qualitative approach, primary sources are interviews with brewers, scientists and officials. Secondary sources are reports, records and media sources. In the first section it presents an overview of the beer industry in Argentina and the emergence of craft beer in the country. Second section analyzes the formation of a research group, of the microbiological area, based in the city of San Carlos de Bariloche that was reconfigured to reseach and services lines on brewing yeasts. Third section, analyzes the emergence of San Carlos de Bariloche craft brewers. Finally, it analyzes the interactions between these actors and networks. It concludes that there are different dynamics of interaction between the research group with the craft brewers of Bariloche and with the brewing corporation.