O sistema nacional de inovação norte-americano

o papel do Estado na construção do complexo industrial-militar-acadêmico durante a Guerra Fria (1950-1970)

Abstract

During the Cold War, the strong state incentive to R&D, through the Department of Defense, gave rise to a coordinated network of scientific and technological institutions aimed at achieving the great American strategy called, conventionally, the industrial- military-academic complex. In this context, the present research proposes to analyze how the North American State materialized its hegemony in the post-Cold War through the articulation of the actors of this complex. To this end, the hypothetical-deductive method will be used, through bibliographic and documentary analysis, in order to analyze the causal relationship between the organicity of the American industrial-military-academic complex (independent variable) and the scope of systemic hegemony in the post- Cold War (dependent variable). The partial results show that the performance of the State is a necessary condition, but not sufficient for technological development, since the role of other actors is also elementary in fostering innovation (INUS). In this way, the analysis undertaken in this work finds theoretical consonance with the perspective of the industrial-military-academic complex, as it highlights the strategic character of the United States' innovation system to achieve its hegemony in the international system.