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Colaborador
Finquelievich, Susana
Materias
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
2004-2016
Idioma
spa
Extent
349 p.
Derechos
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 2.0 Genérica (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Formato
application/pdf
Identificador
Cobertura
7006289
La Plata (inhabited place)
2004-2016
Abstract
The thesis analyzes the socio-technical innovation processes in middle urban areas trought a case study of Software and Informatic Services (SIS) sector in La Plata city. It been considered 20042016 period, whereby it had been registered an stronger growth in the number of SIS enterprises in many varying sizes, located in the city; an active role from research institutes of Informatic Faculty of La Plata National University in the field of ICT and software development; as well as the implementation of public policies in different territorial levels (nation, province, and town) aimed to the sector.
The growth and consolidation of the SIS sector in the city is part of a general context of progress in the development of Informational Capitalism (CI) at a global, regional and local level. The process of capitalist reconstruction initiated at the end of the 1970s, the crisis of the industrial development mode and the Welfare State are global issues, but they need to be analyzed locally in each of the territories where they are expressed. This thesis aims to construct an x-ray, albeit partially, of the informational development mode in its Argentine version, through the case study of a paradigmatic city.
The research analyzes the tensions and obstacles devised to constitute an innovation network in the SIS sector of La Plata: divergence of interests, absence of a "common project", tensions between social actors, and a sharp institutional weakness that hinders the creation of synergies between them. Likewise, it studies the protagonism exercised by some individual actors and the personal links network constituted by them, which allows us to overcome some obstacles in the socio-technological innovation process studied.
The study also describes the public policies of socio-technological innovation implemented in the city, and analyzes their impacts on the territory. With the change of government management occurred in 2015, there was an alignment between the different government territorial levels towards a favorable outlook to the private sector with an approach oriented to entrepreneurship at the expense of the financing of the scientific-technological system and the technological transfer to the industrial productive sector.
Finally, the thesis aims to explore the factors that favor or hinder socio-technological innovation processes in medium-sized urban environments, as well as elucidate their impact on the economic, spatial and social development of the territories. The characteristics of the urban environment, as well as the role played by the National University of La Plata (UNLP), are conditioning factors of the process of socio-technological innovation in the city in terms of: retention of critical mass, formation of social and human capital, fostering an entrepreneurial culture, etc. The questions that run through the thesis permanently pose: How does the process of socio-technological innovation in the SIS sector relate to the dynamics of territorial development? What impacts does this process have on the urban physical and social space?
The growth and consolidation of the SIS sector in the city is part of a general context of progress in the development of Informational Capitalism (CI) at a global, regional and local level. The process of capitalist reconstruction initiated at the end of the 1970s, the crisis of the industrial development mode and the Welfare State are global issues, but they need to be analyzed locally in each of the territories where they are expressed. This thesis aims to construct an x-ray, albeit partially, of the informational development mode in its Argentine version, through the case study of a paradigmatic city.
The research analyzes the tensions and obstacles devised to constitute an innovation network in the SIS sector of La Plata: divergence of interests, absence of a "common project", tensions between social actors, and a sharp institutional weakness that hinders the creation of synergies between them. Likewise, it studies the protagonism exercised by some individual actors and the personal links network constituted by them, which allows us to overcome some obstacles in the socio-technological innovation process studied.
The study also describes the public policies of socio-technological innovation implemented in the city, and analyzes their impacts on the territory. With the change of government management occurred in 2015, there was an alignment between the different government territorial levels towards a favorable outlook to the private sector with an approach oriented to entrepreneurship at the expense of the financing of the scientific-technological system and the technological transfer to the industrial productive sector.
Finally, the thesis aims to explore the factors that favor or hinder socio-technological innovation processes in medium-sized urban environments, as well as elucidate their impact on the economic, spatial and social development of the territories. The characteristics of the urban environment, as well as the role played by the National University of La Plata (UNLP), are conditioning factors of the process of socio-technological innovation in the city in terms of: retention of critical mass, formation of social and human capital, fostering an entrepreneurial culture, etc. The questions that run through the thesis permanently pose: How does the process of socio-technological innovation in the SIS sector relate to the dynamics of territorial development? What impacts does this process have on the urban physical and social space?
Título obtenido
Doctor de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales