Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: How an Emerging Area on the Scientific Agenda of the Core Countries Has Been Adopted and Transformed in Latin America

NOELA INVERNIZZI; MATTHIEU HUBERT; DOMINIQUE VINCK

Beyond Imported Magic. Essays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin America

The MIT Press

Lugar: Cambridge, Massachusetts; Año: 2014; p. 223 - 242

One of the main problems facing STS studies in Latin America regards the relevance of public policies in social, cultural, and economic contexts that are considered "peripheral." A particular feature that we analyze in this chapter is the way in which emerging thematic priorities and science policy models circulate among central and peripheral countries. We question the idea of a unidirectional flow of science and technology from developed to less developed countries ("imported magic"), in spite of the apparent isomorphism in policy design in the different countries, and explore alternative views on how scientific ideas and technologies move in the case of an emerging technoscientific field.