Investimentos em Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (2015-2020) como mecanismo de início de estruturação do campo científico no Brasil e em Alagoas

Abstract

This dissertation sociologically analyzes the relationship between the financial investments made in Alagoas by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and the Foundation for Research Support of the State of Alagoas (FAPEAL) from 2015 to 2020 as a mechanism for structuring the scientific field and as an expression of national development, science and economy projects, in order to guide the achievement of interests. Investments made by development agencies are made through public notices governed by the principle of scientific “merit” and, however, in the end, they serve political interests in the scientific sphere to produce formulas that hinder the entry of new actors (institutions, universities, laboratories, graduate programs) in access to financial resources. This is the northeastern and Alagoan dilemma, that of being the region and state, respectively, where postgraduate and high-level research were created more recently and for which the dispute for financial resources for the production of science comes up against in an order of exclusionary financing policies, despite indications here and there of the need to reduce asymmetries.