Argentina y Brasil: sistemas de financiamiento, políticas tecnológicas y modelos institucionales

Abstract

In the mid-1980s, Argentina and Brazil began a reform of their STI policies that resulted in the design and implementation of scientific and technological policy instruments based on a new approach to State intervention. This paper explores the development of the main financing institutions of STI activities in both countries, based on the analysis of their sources of financing, which are crucial to understand the hierarchical and functional interdependencies of these entities. The analysis shows that the financing structures of STI policies allowed the consolidation of a new approach to State intervention, although with significant differences in their ability to design instruments and sustain their promotional instruments over time.