Resources, Production and Productivity of CONICET

Abstract

The work examines the extraordinary expansion experienced by the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones
Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) in the last fifteen years. It seeks to emphasize that the debate on science and technology in the country places excessive emphasis on the examination of investment in R & D and pays very little attention to the production and results obtained from that investment. The work ultimately struggles for an integral approach that requires the relationship between inputs and the production of the scientific system. For this purpose, it examines what happened with the CONICET budget, its human resources, the scholarship program and the production and scientific results obtained. The analysis adopts as a point of reference what happened with the countries of Latin America and the main research institutions of the region. The budget and human resources data come from the Ministry of Finance, CONICET itself and secondary sources, while the production is intended to quantify and qualify from the System of Financial Physical Monitoring of the Budgetary System, the Results by Programs and Projects in Institutional Order of the Investment Account and the scientific publications indexed in the WOS database (Web of Science). Based on this information, indicators of productivity and performance are finally drawn up looking for elements that help to qualify performance