The technology

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The lack of a scientific politics
The technology
By: Carlos Damián January 22, 2012
The dismantlement of the investigation institutes
México. - The prices of most of primary products, but mainly the matters industrial cousins, entered in free fall at the end of September and principle s of October, among the turbulence of the financial markets caused by the world economic panorama and the crisis in the area Eurus. Then the prices were stabilized or in some cases they rose in the final months of 2011. In general they have had a strong beginning of 2012, impelled by reports that reveal more positive tendencies in China and United States, as well as certain signs that the crisis in the area Eurus won't arrive to nonfulfilment extended in the payment of the sovereign debt.

On the average, it is expected that the prices are weaker in 2012, due to a descent in the growth of the consumption, and in some cases, to certain improvement in the offer. The strength of the dollar would be also negative for these prices. However the falls monetary conditions and a loss of trust in the capacity of payment of the indebted sovereignties they encourage the investors to return to the real assets, that which offers some support to their prices. The global consumption of petroleum will begin to blunt in 2013, when the growth is strengthened. In 2014 - 16 are expected that a stronger global growth rises by 2 percent the annual consumption of petroleum.

The technology lack
In this XXI century Mexico has a very important challenge in front as emergent country, and the development of the technology to reduce the technological dependence can face to the countries of first level and to reduce this dependence in the field of the technology. This topic is not only to create knowledge, but rather it has to do with the structure of the productive system. Often we hear the speeches that celebrate our energy dependence, and next it is linked with the national goldfinches that scream that the petroleum is not business and they look for that it surrenders to the foreign one and this way to deepen our technological dependence. When hearing our governing with speeches about the “urgent reformations that the country needs", however never we hear that they refer to the changes that are required to knock down the technological backwardness, and this without a doubt is one of the big challenges for our development.

Certainly that the technological dependence decreases impelling the investigation and the innovation in the companies, but it is that this strategy has not had positive results up to now. The productive sector has experienced a growth mainly in the productive sector, and the private company has invested in the investigation and experimental development (GIDE), still when they have made it has not been enough to reduce the dependence. The companies when participating in the execution of the Gide reached 40.7 percent, but today we import more technology than before, as it shows it the scale of payments in this area, the which it experienced in 2009 the biggest debit in the past 15 years.

The dismantlement of the public investigation institutes
In the past 20 years the state has behaved in a simplistic way benefitting to the companies, but in a selfish way since they don't share its discoveries with the progressive and technological Mexico. The science and technology politics of the state has been devoted to impel in the foreign companies with Mexican money, the technology that they need these companies to be developed. In the period that corresponds to the administrations of the PAN according to the Center of Studies for the Public Finances of the Chamber of Deputies they handed over 1 thousand 266.67 million dollars by means of fiscal stimuli to the transnational ones in exchange for anything.

We have a rate of dependence of higher technology of the world (23.21 in 2008), according to the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt, in Spanish). This indicator you can contrast with that of other nations of the world like Brazil (1.60), Korea (0.34), and Spain (0.008). The scorn of the ultra-right state to the institutions of investigation of the public sector that it maintains in the abandonment. Let us consider to the Institute of Electric Investigations (IIE), National Institute of Nuclear Investigations (ININ), and to the Mexican Institute of the Petroleum (IMP) that grieve they survive. It is interesting the case of the IMP since when entering the presidential leader Felipe Calderon he brought already in their version of reformation energetic, and it applied the dismantlement of the institute, but fortunately thanks to the debates in the UNAM, the Senate, and the public opinion didn't happen this way.

The politics of the state toward the science and technology
To carry out a series of stimuli to the science companies, investigation and the serious innovation something appropriate and with sense being able to this to bring tangible benefits to the country, to be able to reduce the technological dependence. Among other many ideas to achieve it would be to condition the fiscal stimuli to the achievement of specific goals, as the formation of human resources, the linking of the projects with the institutions of superior education, and the public investigation centers. Perhaps some people will say that the proposals are nationalist, but we should located ourselves in the context of the XXI century, and let us consider archaic that reject investigators that have emerged of these institutions of superior education they publish and almost all they are abroad in investigation institutions because in Mexico they are contempt by their origin.

In the world it is clear that there is only a path, since in this dilemma the science gives place to the technology, because the technological developments can also create new fields of the basic investigation, like it happens in the area of the technologies of attended reproduction. All basic investigation can be inserted possibly in the production, and Mexico needs investigation basic and also a lot of technology. (La Jornada, ciencia, p. p. 6ª - 35, January 21, 2011).