Scientific policies in the knowledge age: a conjuncture analysis of the global scientific ecosystem

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to do a conjuncture analysis on Brazilian science, based on a look at the geopolitics of knowledge, in which information is consolidated as an important tool of power dispute. In this sense, the proposal of this analysis of conjuncture is to unveil the actors and the market and ideological discourses both in the scientific policies that affect the behaviors between areas as in the disputes of recognition that cross the traditional spaces of scientific circulation. We start from the notion of the existence of a dynamic and complex ecosystem in which the different actors of global and national scale are interconnected from their own disputes and interests. It remains to be understood, therefore, who these actors would be and what are the discourses linked to these subjects in their social and political dynamics of circulation of knowledge and information.

Key words:
scientific ecosystem; geopolitics of knowledge; scientific periphery; scientific policies; social dynamics