Resumo

CABELLO, Alejandra  e  ORTIZ, Edgar. Public policies for technological innovation and development: theory and proposal of higher education. Convergencia [online]. 2013, vol.20, n.61, pp.135-172. ISSN 2448-5799.

This paper advocates for a strategic state intervention to foster innovation and scientific development, taking as conceptual framework a neo-Keynesian model. In order to promote a highly competitive economy it suggests improving the administration of research and development taking into consideration that the public administrator has been displaced from this activity, while specialists from the "hard" sciences have been in charge of it without an appropriate knowledge of public administration principles. For this purpose, this work suggests a reform in higher education consisting in common courses on social sciences, mathematics, statistics, econometry, natural sciences, languages, and information and communication technologies; all integrated through research projects guided by different specialists, as well as professional internships linking universities with public and private sectors.

Palavras-chave : innovation and development administration; integral higher education; state intervention; science and technology.