¿Transferencia de modelos institucionales o redes de asuntos de expertos? Análisis de un préstamo para ciencia y tecnología en Argentina del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo durante los noventa

Abstract

Some analysts of policies on Science, Technology and Innovation (PSTI) highlighted the relevance that international fi nancial organizations have had on the creation of institutions and instruments in Latin-America and the Caribbean (LAC). This study analyzes the role played by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in the PSTI that tried to build a National Innovation System in Argentina during the nineties. Because of this policy (Technology Upgrading Program I), Argentina became the principal IDB’s loan taker of ALC to fi nance STI. This study uses recent conceptual advances on the fi eld known as ‘studies about experts on public policies’. In particular, it applies the concept of ‘issue networks’ to analyze the framework of relationships between agents, institutions and cognitive frames involved with groups of experts on a public policy thematic. It concludes that in issue networks occur processes of knowledge movement, reception and also re-elaboration of them. And those processes have consequences on the construction of PSTI agendas.