Social Effects of Public-Private r&d: the Role of the Accumulation of Systemic Capacities in the Argentine Response to COVID-19
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Environmental Issue, Environmental Institutionalism, Social Environmentalism, Social EnvironmentalismAbstract
Joint research is a potentially virtuous cooperation scheme to generate learning in the public sector and beneficial effects in society. Based on the Argentine experience in the Covid-19 pandemic, the paper proposes to analyze the network of capacities, relationships and effects generated, over time, by a series of projects financed by the State in 2010, in order to clarify the nexus between learning effects and social effects. A qualitative methodology focused on multiple case study method was used, where each case covers projects financed by the State that later resulted in different solutions for Covid-19. The work identifies a public learning process that integrates both the contributions of the industry and the intellectual dimension of economic benefits; conceptualizes the process of accumulation of capacities as multiplier of social effects that emerge as knowledge is reused; identifies the articulation
between different schemes as a condition for learning effects and social effects to manifest themselves over time.
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