Análise crítica do discurso da Estratégia Nacional de Investigação e Inovação para uma Especialização Inteligente de Portugal 2014-2020

Abstract

The article presents a critical discourse analysis (CDA) applied to the National Research and Innovation Strategy for an Intelligent Specialization of Portugal 2014-2020 (NSIE). The purpose is to interpret the representations about scientific and technological knowledge underpinning the NSIE as well as the relationship between these representations and the paradigm of development promoted by the policy paper and its correspondence with the representations of nature, society and education. The work is based on the world-systems analysis as a theoretical perspective that allows the articulation between the discursive dimension and the normative critique, as well as to identify the presence of a linear conception of development consistent with the idea of catching up; the representation of people, nature and culture as resources as well as a notion of scientific knowledge as a continuum of experimentation, discovery and commercialization. Finally, it allowed us to recognize in the NSIE a self-representation of Portugal compatible with the theoretical category of semi-periphery.

Keywords

• critical discourse analysis
• innovation policy
• Portugal
• science and technology policy
• scientific knowledge