Scientific mobility and the meanings around the utility in the production and circulation of knowledge: An analysis based on the Becas Chile Program
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2022-12
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Universidad de Talca
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The article focuses on one of the most important scientific policies in Chile regarding the advanced human capital at the postgraduate level formation: 'Sistema Bicentenario Becas Chile' (or Becas Chile Program). From a macro perspective, the policy was oriented to increase the 'brain circulation'. Its main characteristic was that the scholarship holders had to assume a mandatory commitment to return to the country of origin, avoiding then a 'brain drain'. The objective of this article focuses on a specific aspect of this process, from a micro analytical emphasis, to understand the actors' perceptions regarding the social utility of the scientific knowledge they produced. Thus, we propose to examine the motives, expectations and strategies that the actors express when choosing their PhD's research topics. The results suggest that the knowledge obtained abroad may have repercussions in a 'social utility', but it is not fully capitalized, because the commitment to return is not linked to certain guarantees for professional reintegration in the country of origin. © 2022 Universidad de Talca. All rights reserved.
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Indexación: Scopus.
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Brain circulation, Brain drain, Knowledge production, Scientific mobility, Social utility of knowledge
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Universum, Volume 37, Issue 2, Pages 457 - 478December 2022
DOI
10.4067/S0718-23762022000200457