#Suggested Reading
#Suggested Reading
30.04.2024
An account of the main themes of science
Sociologist recommends CGEE report that addresses scientific topics from the perspective of management and strategic studies
CGEE report suggests future topics of interest in nanotechnology, agriculture, biodiversity, and other fields key to science, technology and innovation (STI) in Brazil | Photograph: Léo Ramos Chaves
MY RECOMMENDATION:
The Science, Technology, and Innovation Observatory Annual Report (OCTI 2022), released in June 2023 by the Center for Management and Strategic Studies (CGEE).
WHY IS IT WORTH READING?
The most recent Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) Observatory Annual Report, published by the Center for Management and Strategic Studies (CGEE) in 2023, provides an unprecedented view of the arrangements of our scientific communities, including their international connections with institutions in other countries.
The document makes use of an interesting set of methods to examine the relational nature of Brazilian science, identifying key thematic groupings of interest to our researchers.
As well as offering a strategic vision of specialist research areas in some of the main countries on the international scene, chapter one also suggests future topics of interest in nanotechnology, agriculture, biodiversity, and other fields key to Brazil’s STI goals.
Using distant reading techniques, the document provides an understanding of the opportunities and challenges faced by Brazilian research while also monitoring this work accordingly. In the second chapter, the OCTI gives readers an in-depth look at the importance of recognizing Brazilian scientific excellence, including an overview of topics of interest to the community that have or have had a level 1 productivity grant from the CNPq.
One of its greatest findings is that epidemiological topics have a strong capacity to boost relationships between researchers from different fields, which proved to be a real necessity during the pandemic both in Brazil and worldwide.
Marcelo Augusto de Paiva dos Santos is a researcher and analyst at the Center for Management and Strategic Studies (CGEE) and is studying a PhD in sociology at Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ).
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