Scientific and technological liberalism and national development agenda

Abstract

The present study aims to discuss current trends of science and technology development in relation to international hegemonic parameters. Latin American countries are seeking to follow hegemonic trends of science organization and in some way evading to stablish their own basis for groups that lead local scientific communities. The interest in this article is to analyze impacts of American scientific and technological liberalism and its capacity to shape different development agendas. Focusing on issues such as globalization of science and models of current science assessment, we come to the conclusion that underdeveloped countries are not capable to establish an autonomous national agenda even though their scientific system gain more productivity.