O modelo E-Science nos institutos nacionais de ciência e tecnologia de nanotecnologia: evidências de práticas colaborativas

Abstract

Identify the evidence of collaborative practices for innovation and scientific production in the National Institutes of Science and Technology and the repercussion of e-Science as research promotion model in these institutes was the goal of this work. It sought for evidences of the contemporary scientific making in the investigated institutes and the study was based in the ActorNetwork Theory, theoretical-methodological basis combined with the methodological triangulation strategy obtained with Bibliometrics, Social Network Analysis and the Survey Method. Concludes that the evidence of transience between the traditional collaborative practices and the e-Science model, potentiated by the use of contemporary technological artifacts, reverberate positively in scientific production as a potentiality for the solidification of collaborative networks for innovation of the investigated National Institutes of Science and Technology. The occasioned public policy in the institutes’ model revealed synergy and connection with the purpose of the international research centers structured around the e-Science notion. However, the explicit absence of the concept in the Brazilian public directives scope, the discontinuity of the policies and resources dedicated prevented the formal scientific articulation between the models. Nevertheless, although the e-Science model is not collaborative practices structuring for the innovation of these researchers now, there is no impediment of becoming one in the future.