**4. The research agenda on the definition of hierarchical position**

Research agendas are always under construction. We could relate the construction with the society structure in some moments, and it makes clear the close relation between scientific and technological interests in a capitalistic society. Among the areas in which this relation is clear are mainly the war industry, and then, we have health, telecommunications, information technology, biotechnology, nanotechnology and most recently, we have also the issues related to the environment. It is possible to affirm that among these research "latest agendas", the central science reproduced investigation patterns and results that guided the science into the leader position in the knowledge frontier. It was due to the periphery to follow this frontier and it could be done either changing politics focus, sending researchers to the new centers, or even transforming the whole society from the laws that ruled the

<sup>2</sup> Citing: The criteria of the National Council of Research (in Portuguese – CNPq) and the Coordenation of Specialization of Graduated People (in Portuguese – CAPES)

2. Local imaginary. Collective beliefs – Brazilianness, anthropophagi, syncretism, tropicalism – that conforms concepts and theories to the symbolic local perspectives; 3. Local research agendas. It is related to the two former points; the first one is concerning the "peripherization" of objects and; to the second one concerning the paradigms. It happens that such elements from the peripheral condition will guide the efforts to the local agendas, concerning the governmental initiative from the scientific and technological

The adhesion to the central research agendas is one of the system's requirement to the circulation of the science and technology to beyond its contexts of its construction. The local interest must be related to the global research interests (central), if it is wanted to reach the credits from the system of credit concession from the center of the science and technology international system. The closer from the central patterns of the investigation – "knowledge frontier" – quicker and more profitable will be the concession. The past decades, in Brazil, the scientific2 production evaluation system has been awarded the scientists who publish in journal from abroad, supporting the creation of international researches network, and therefore, connecting local and global interests. In order to publish abroad, it is necessary to adhere the calculus centers, global agendas. It, concomitantly, reinforces the centrals and

The following discussions are focused at the last point and it seeks to relate it with the newest agenda suggested by the centrals, namely, the climate change. It is in vogue a process that intends to search a techno-scientific paradigm which corresponds to the general expectations of the sustainability of the global society, structured especially after the IV IPPC report (Intergovernmental panel for climate change, from the United Nations Organization). The perception that the society based on the intensive consumption of fossil fuel has come to the limit, associate also the emergency of its technological limit. Thereby, it is needed a new technological paradigm to the production, daily consumption, communication, transport, that satisfies the socio environmental requirements from this new society, that has

Research agendas are always under construction. We could relate the construction with the society structure in some moments, and it makes clear the close relation between scientific and technological interests in a capitalistic society. Among the areas in which this relation is clear are mainly the war industry, and then, we have health, telecommunications, information technology, biotechnology, nanotechnology and most recently, we have also the issues related to the environment. It is possible to affirm that among these research "latest agendas", the central science reproduced investigation patterns and results that guided the science into the leader position in the knowledge frontier. It was due to the periphery to follow this frontier and it could be done either changing politics focus, sending researchers to the new centers, or even transforming the whole society from the laws that ruled the

Citing: The criteria of the National Council of Research (in Portuguese – CNPq) and the Coordenation

already been denominated as a post-carbon society (SZERSZYNSKI; URRY, 2010).

**4. The research agenda on the definition of hierarchical position** 

of Specialization of Graduated People (in Portuguese – CAPES)

politics, or even the scientists practice.

reproduced the differentiation in ISST.

 2 science until the most generic conceptions concerning nature3 – the last is related to a very extreme situation, though.

This precedence on the agenda proposition is one of the defining elements in the science hierarchy, promoting - in all levels of scientific investigation, a difference center-periphery. The antecedence conducts to reference, and it is a scientific rule well documented by the specialized literature4. By verifying the construction of sector funds5, politics of focusing the scientific and technological activity in strategic areas in Brazil, and it is possible to find that, first, the politics – as a whole – is laggard and, second, the thematic focus incorporate are related to the "latest agendas". Furthermore, many of the politics for the scientific and technological development had an *ex ante* meaning, that is to say that these politics were merely normative, with a symbolic meaning because it was not possible to develop those agendas propositions.

The preceding agenda determination guides, necessarily, to the publication os articles and patent depot. This dynamics, by the way, is a cycle: articles guide to new agendas that are guided to new articles. Based on this, this dynamic which restructure itself along the time, is detached from the global conditions of research necessities, we can mention here the biomedical research. Following Sumathipala *et. al.* (2004) less than 10% from all the worldwide sources aimed to biomedical researches is directed to the 90% of known health problems. The authors affirm that 93% of the avoidable deaths occur in under developing countries and, yet, just a small part of the research financing is directed to these illnesses in these countries. The central agenda satisfies just a part from what is considered as a global problem to the biomedical area, sub-representing a greater part of the raised problems for the local agenda. That is the reason why the expression "neglected illnesses" is used, because it does not take part in the major interests in the central researches. It can be said, thus, that the conditions of entering the SICT do not regard the local interests, sub-representing them, and, therefore, causing damage to a more equal agenda on science6.
