Yero L
CENDES-Universidad Central de Venezuela.
Acta Cient Venez. 1991;42(3):107-16.
The institutionalization of scientific research in Venezuela enters a new stage. Priority for technology versus science is expressed in a clear preference for technological development instead of scientific research in public policies. The emergence of new agents has favored conditions of plurality and changes in the hegemony of research groups. Academic research, especially university research, tends to be substituted by development of innovation for the production process. Part of the potential generated by the expansion at university and postgraduate level, in the country and outside it, does not find satisfactory opportunities in the scientific research in the country. A process of talent drain has begun, there are less resources for the training of high new level personnel for scientific research. The difficulties and dangers are of a different nature than those of the previous decades. This stage of the nineties, framed in financial scarcity, mercantilization of knowledge and social and economic changes in general taking place in the country, favors an utilitarian-profitable-selective-competitive-privatized research, with emphasis on the technological. The continuity of scientific research, specially academic, depends on the capacity to provide an answer to these changes and challenges and requires a new management style.
委内瑞拉科研的制度化进入了一个新阶段。在公共政策中，对技术而非科学的优先重视表现为明显倾向于技术发展而非科学研究。新主体的出现有利于形成多元化局面，并改变研究团体的主导地位。学术研究，尤其是大学研究，往往被生产过程中的创新发展所取代。国内及国外大学和研究生教育规模扩大所产生的部分潜力，在该国的科研领域未能找到令人满意的机会。人才流失的过程已经开始，用于培养高水平科研人才的资源减少。当前的困难和危险与过去几十年的性质不同。在九十年代这个阶段，由于资金短缺、知识商业化以及该国总体上发生的社会和经济变革，有利于一种功利性、盈利性、选择性、竞争性、私有化的研究，且侧重于技术方面。科研工作的延续性，尤其是学术科研的延续性，取决于应对这些变化和挑战的能力，这需要一种新的管理方式。
