Vinculación tecnológica para el acceso a la salud: El caso del PROFARSE

Abstract

In an economy moving towards the intensive use of knowledge, a process that has been reinforced in the pandemic context, the analysis of the relationships, related to technology transfer practices, established within the public production of medicines (PPM) sector is of special interest in terms of health sovereignty. This paper analyzes the role of an Argentinian PPM company, Productora Farmacéutica Rionegrina Sociedad del Estado (PROFARSE), and characterizes the technological relationships it has established, by identifying the economic, intellectual and systemic benefits. Thus, it is possible to identify that PROFARSE has acquired a preponderant role in healthcare policies as a consequence of the interactions it has been able to establish, in which benefits of the three types above mentioned can be identified. It is also possible to identify the promotional instruments that allowed the technological relationships as well as the relevance of horizontal articulations in the consolidation of public policies.