Estrategia de desarrollo e instrumentos de política tecnológica. La Argentina en la primera mitad de la década de 1970

Abstract

In the first half of the 1970s in Argentina, in a context of growing political-institutional instability, under the economic administrations of Aldo Ferrer and José Ber Gelbard, an attempt was made to modify the pattern of economic development. To this end, a set of new technological policy instruments were implemented aimed at directing the demand of companies towards national sources of technology and, in this way, reducing external dependence on technologies, and consequently, obtain a greater degree of independence or technological sovereignty. The objective of this paper is to analyze, on the one hand, what was the diagnosis and the conceptual foundations on which a new set of explicit technology policy instruments was promoted. And on the other, the limits of the state intervention strategy implemented between 1970 and 1976. In this way, it is hoped to provide elements of analysis to understand the challenges to implement effective development strategies in semi-peripheral countries such as Argentina.