Socio-productive innovation: Generation of democratic interactoral networks as an instrument to promote local development (Original)

Abstract

The present work refers to the generation of technological innovations that attempt to articulate local productive developments, environmental sustainability and cognitive democracy. This last aspect points to the importance of the democratization of productive decisions and the consensual distribution of benefits in processes related to local development. Through an investigation of the interpretative type, an experience is taken as a case study in the city of Concordia, Argentina, which collectively develops a technology related to construction systems in wood, with the aim of promoting solidarity productive processes based on local resources and knowledge. From a critical position and participatory action in territory, the experience proposes an innovation that tries to modify the current productive modes, overcoming the unidirectional technological transfer, by new forms of solving problems in a collective and solidary way. In methodological terms, it is based on the recognition of strongly installed local capacities, creating new spaces based on establishing alliances and relationships between different actors and / or sectors. In this framework, the main objective of this work is to analyze and interpret the case study from analytical categories that emerge from the theoretical perspective of the Social Studies of Science and Technology (ESCyT) as an interdisciplinary field that studies and questions the cultural, ethical and political effects of scientific knowledge and technological innovation.