Política de I+D en Estados Unidos y antecedentes de una diplomacia científica. Apuntes históricos

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La progresiva implicación del gobierno de Estados Unidos en la financiación y promoción de políticas públicas de investigación y desarrollo (I+D) se intensificó en los años cuarenta, enmarcada por la expansión del Estado federal y por la movilización de recursos motivada por la II Guerra Mundial. En aquella coyuntura se creó el Office of Scientific Research and Development-OSRD, dirigido por Vannevar Bush. Las experiencias de la guerra fomentaron la cooperación entre responsables políticos, científicos, ingenieros, militares e industriales, una tendencia que continuó en la posguerra. A medida que se intensificaban las tensiones entre Estados Unidos y la Unión Soviética, se amplió el consenso sobre la necesidad de contar con un sólido sistema de I+D respaldado por una fuerte financiación pública. La Guerra Fría no se limitó a una contienda política, estratégica, económica e ideológica, sino que por su propia dinámica global acarreó una competición por la supremacía científica mundial. En el país americano se promovió la Big Science, articulada en torno a la trilogía de “big money, big equipement, and big teams” en sectores considerados estratégicos. La investigación sobre la energía atómica ocupó un lugar preferente y fue la primera en contar con organismos específicos para su supervisión y organización (la Atomic Energy Commission-AEC), reflejo de su prioridad para la seguridad nacional. Más tarde otras agencias estatales irían sumándose a un entorno concebido para responder a los desafíos de la política de I+D (National Institutes of Health-NIH, National Science Foundation-NSF, National Aeronautics and Space Administration-NASA).Simultáneamente, la política de I+D experimentó un proceso de internacionalización, destinado a fomentar dinámicas de colaboración en un mundo cada vez más globalizado y ganar aliados extranjeros en la confrontación bipolar. La diplomacia científica norteamericana fue configurándose para responder a la proliferación de agencias internacionales que mostraban la creciente presencia de la ciencia y la tecnología en los asuntos mundiales. La Organización Europea de Cooperación Económica-OECE, luego OCDE, sirvió de canal para transferir a los países occidentales los paradigmas y métodos estadounidenses en materia de I+D, haciendo hincapié en la conexión entre crecimiento económico, investigación y formación científico-técnica. Estos principios también influyeron en las políticas de cooperación emprendidas en los años sesenta, con el horizonte de promover el desarrollo del Tercer Mundo y situarlo en la senda de la modernización. Otro ámbito prioritario de aquella diplomacia científica en ciernes fueron los programas de formación de capital humano, cuyos destinatarios actuarían como agentes mediadores del modelo americano con sus sociedades de origen.
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