Diego Lawler

Contemporary science and technology diplomacy often operates through leader‐centric, event‐driven, and weakly institutionalized arrangements, which are ill‐suited to domains marked by high interdependence, nonlinearity, and rapidly evolving knowledge. This article proposes Complex Adaptive Science and Technology Diplomacy (CASTD) not as a descriptive label for the field as a whole, but as a conditional analytical and institutional design framework for contexts in which conventional diplomatic instruments face structural limits. Rather than treating diplomacy as an episodic extension of foreign policy, the article suggests reconceiving it, under specific conditions of systemic risk and distributed authority, as a form of strategic infrastructure for governing uncertainty. Drawing on complexity science, polycentric governance, and critical perspectives on science diplomacy, the framework addresses persistent limitations in the literature, including conceptual ambiguity, technocratic depoliticization, and limited evaluability. CASTD identifies three interdependent capacities, adaptive governance, network orchestration, and integrative synthesis, and outlines how these can be operationalized through coordination architectures and structured learning processes. Illustrative cases indicate that durable cooperation depends less on episodic leadership than on reproducible and adaptable forms of coordination.

En este artículo abordamos la noción de tecnología entrañable propuesta por Miguel Ángel Quintanilla, situándola en el contexto de las elaboraciones de este autor sobre el desarrollo tecnológico. En particular, consideramos que la noción de tecnología entrañable supone una novedad porque propone un marco normativo para construir un desarrollo tecnológico integral y, simultáneamente, alternativo al actualmente existente. Al mismo tiempo, constituye un prisma conceptual para analizar la noción misma de desarrollo tecnológico. Por otro lado, comentamos algunos rasgos de esta noción empleando ejemplos que provienen de la denominada inteligencia artificial. Finalmente, señalamos que esta propuesta comporta un punto de vista político y ético sobre las sociedades actuales y futuras, puesto que involucra compromisos con fines determinados en el diseño y la producción de mundos artificiales, comprometiéndose con una concepción de lo que es una vida humana digna de ser vivida.

This paper explores how maintenance and repair practices provide insights into the nature of artifacts. Inspired by Michael Thompson’s (2008) analysis of life-forms, we propose an analogy that invites us to view artifacts as if they were akin to living beings. This analogy allows us to argue that artifacts possess a kind of “life-form”: a structured mode of existence characterized by their intrinsic organization, characteristic operations, and distinctive life-cycles. We further contend that artifacts exhibit a principle of unity that aligns them within a broader lineage of similar entities, defined by their shared life-form across various stages of their existence. This unity is actively manifested in the practices of maintenance and repair, which are organized around preserving the continuity and coherence of the artifact’s life-form. This perspective enables us to offer meaningful reflections on the ontology of artifacts while engaging constructively with prevailing viewpoints on the subject.

In this paper we will analyse the structure of the Argentine Plan for Science, Technology and Innovation 2030, assuming that it is a paradigmatic example of the type of STI policy that a mainstream sector of academia and public policy makers understand as a form of governance of the scientific-technological sector compatible with the most modern theories of socio-economic development. The focus will be predominantly philosophical, asking about the Plan's relevance in the structure of the national state, investigating its ethos (and its anchoring in the debate between the Plan's orientation towards national objectives and its non-orientation in the interests of freedom of research) and analysing the influence of certain underlying theories (curiously theories of the economic sciences) on its letter.

Addressing climate change requires innovative, collective action and robust international collaboration. Through joint efforts, nations can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, pioneer sustainable technologies, and implement effective adaptation measures. Science diplomacy and knowledge sharing hold the potential to bolster global stability and peace by directly confronting climate change challenges. Therefore, it becomes imperative to evaluate a country’s alignment of its scientific knowledge system (SKS) with international guidelines. This study delineates the global scientific discourse on climate change and juxtaposes the alignment between an individual nation’s research endeavors and United Nations resolutions concerning climate change and sustainable development. Our methodology integrates data extraction from scientific research databases with advanced textual analysis tools, highlighting this study’s unique focus on the intersection of climate change and UN resolutions. To deliver an empirical analysis, we leveraged complex network theory and advanced text-processing techniques. Our findings demonstrate the trajectory of global scientific output related to these themes, segmented by countries and coupled with CO₂ emissions data, key disciplines, and collaboration networks. These insights are instrumental for leaders, policymakers, and stakeholders, highlighting areas of convergence and divergence in national research initiatives essential for achieving global climate goals. Such knowledge is strategically useful for crafting purpose-driven public policies and honoring enduring multilateral pledges to address the climate crisis proactively.

This study analyzes the alignment between (1) the scientific publications generated within a nation-state, and (2) the United Nations resolutions on climate change research and sustainable development guidelines to which that nation-state is a signatory. Starting with a characterization of Chile’s modern scientific journal output using extensive scientometrics databases, this work contrasts the resulting Chilean analysis with United Nations (UN) resolutions generated at the fifth UN Environment Assembly held in Nairobi in March of 2022. Chile is an interesting choice because the most recent political election installed an environmentally progressive president who has described his administration as the “first ecological government in the history of Chile”. Chile also held a constitutional referendum shortly after the presidential election that would have replaced the existing constitution from 1980 with a more progressive constitution designed to shift the country towards expanded social and environmental rights. The study covers different dimensions and scales, from the interaction of authors, institutions, and disciplines, to the current conditions regarding authors’ gender and the co-author inertia existing in every niche of scientific publication in Chile. The results and recommendations presented in this paper are intended to assist in developing policies for improved scientific–technical knowledge management at the national level.

Este artículo presenta y valora filosóficamente una herramienta que denominamos el índice EME. Se trata de una herramienta para la valoración del diseño del hardware y software involucrado en los dispositivos tecnológicos empleados en la enseñanza de la robótica y programación en niños y niñas de la primera infancia. Esto último es especialmente importante puesto que existe un fuerte impulso a favor de la incorporación de la enseñanza de programación y robótica desde los primeros años de escolarización. El índice EME es un índice que valora los diseños de dispositivos tecnológicos en función del tipo de experiencia que promueven y en relación con la apropiación de conocimientos y usos que habilitan. La evaluación que propicia comprende la versatilidad, el acceso a posibilidades de ampliación, fuentes de energía y ensamblado de los dispositivos computacionales, sobre el supuesto de que esas prestaciones materializan (o no) diferentes experiencias de aprendizaje para los sujetos que interactúan con ellos. Se denomina EME porque recoge las dimensiones de Ensamblado - Modificación - Expansión que se proponen como parámetros para la valoración de los diseños.

Introducción al Dossier: Intervenciones sobre ciencia, tecnología, innovación y sociedad. Dossier aniversario 25 años de la Maestría en Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad de la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes

En el presente trabajo analizamos la noción de Política Orientada por Misión, un instrumento fomentado desde sectores académicos y políticos asociados a la corriente keynesiana/neoschumpeteriana de la economía política. Este instrumento, en consonancia con el espíritu de la mencionada corriente, establece la importancia del Estado guiando la innovación científica y tecnológica con objetivos claros. En este trabajo caracterizamos esta propuesta y analizamos las condiciones de viabilidad para la aplicación de dicho instrumento en nuestro país.