“Knowledge is Power” Science and technology for endogenous development

Modernity brought the idea that progress goes hand in hand with technological advances, closely linked with scientific activity. The search for knowledge is not a “neutral” activity. Far from the image of the platonic value of knowledge as something good or beautiful “per se”, contemporary history shows us knowledge as power and scientific activity and its connection with technological innovation and the economic and political models socially established at world level. Professors Marianela Lafuente and Carlos Genatios analyze the Venezuelan development program in a national scientific environment and the challenges it poses.