Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 October 2022
This essay was completed while the author was a fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences in Uppsala.
1. See Michael J. Piore and Charles F. Sabel, The Second Industrial Divide (New York: Basic Books, 1984).
2. See Daniel C. Levy, University and Government in Mexico (New York: Praeger, 1980); and Simon Schwartzman, “Brazil: Opportunity and Crisis in Higher Education,” Higher Education 17 (1988): 99–119.
3. Another example is Peter B. Evans, “State, Capital, and the Transformation of Dependence: The Brazilian Computer Case,” World Development 14, no. 7 (1986):791–808.
4. One of the few exceptions is the work developed under the leadership of Hebe Vessuri in Venezuela. See La ciencia periférica: ciencia y sociedad en Venezuela, edited by Elena Díaz, Yolanda Texera, and Hebe Vessuri (Caracas: Centro de Estudios del Desarrollo and Monte Avila Editores, 1983); and Ciencia académica en la Venezuela moderna, edited by Hebe Vessuri (Caracas: Fondo Editorial Acta Científica Venezolana, 1984). See also Simon Schwartzman, Formação da Comunidade Científica no Brasil (São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro: Companhia Editora Nacional and FINEP, 1979).