'Research and innovation agendas': An evaluation of Venezuelan policies for innovation

Abstract:

This research has been directed towards evaluating 'Research and Innovation Agendas' developed in'Venezuela since 1995. The Agendas represent a set of policies directed towards the constitution of innovation networks in multiple areas, promoting new forms of collaboration among researchers, business men, citizens, and politicians among others. In order to reach our evaluative objectives, we developed certain tools and indicators in order to estimate whether or not they were successful, centering the study on the qualitative appreciation of the general characteristics of each of the agendas as programs of innovation (a component of a more complex institutional macro-evaluation) leaving to future studies the presentation of specific results associated with each of the agendas. The preliminary results reported herein indicate the abandonment of the original proposals and a return to tradition which placed academic research over and above other efforts in the generation of knowledge. The up-dating of these policies must pass through a deepening of the original proposal of networks of actors and social agents, overcoming the management-centered model in order to achieve more pertinent research, all of which has impeded a major advance towards the promises contained within the network model.

Año de publicación:

2006

Keywords:

• Innovation networks
• Research and innovation agendas
• Science and Technology
• VENEZUELA
• Public policies evaluation

Fuente:

scopus