INSTITUTIONAL PROTAGONISM IN THE BRAZILIAN SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT

a historical clipping from the 1950s until the first decade of the 21st century

Abstract

The relevance of institutional actor lies in the protagonism that exercises when there is a comprehension of governmental acting as a State policy, in order to obtain an organizational gain in public policies, in this specific case, the development of science and technology in Brazil. In this sense, the main objective of this paper is to know the historic context of the institutionalization in the Brazilian process of scientific and technological development, considering as temporal space from the 1950s until the first decade of the 21st century in Brazil, from its legal marks. In relation to methodological procedures, it is used historical research to examine carefully the past and to build in a chronological way the context which has relevance in the creation of institutional actors that began to play an important role in the history of Brazilian science. It is taken legal ordination as theoretical reference, as well as secondary information which supports the theoretical body of the history of creation of institutions focused on the planning and execution of scientific policies, such as the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), and the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT). Therefore, it is given as a product the synthesis by presenting this institutional tripod which historically underpin the government foment of research in the contribution of a Brazilian scientific culture.