This article aims to discuss how technological production has been affected by new organizational patterns of funding and evaluation, international transformations in terms of the reorganization of research centers, and changes in innovation practices. Researchers and scientists have had their activities redefined through new organizational formats that today are well-established. The purpose here is to verify the impacts that these tendencies have had on the scientific and technological production of Public Research Institutes. We analyzed the case of the Technological Research Institute (Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas - IPT) and found that from the 1990s onwards, research institutions in Brazil internalized organizational forms that enabled them to place themselves in the international agenda as reputational agents, and that the IPT internalized an international agenda, hiring new services and with new budgets. The institutions of scientific research tended to align their interests with hegemonic devices and to withdraw the participation of agents not able to make explicit the new formulas for recognition in the scientific field.

Este artigo discute as relações entre a trajetória institucional do Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas (IPT) e as mudanças nas políticas de CT&I estaduais e federais, tratando de identificar os pontos de inflexão, que impactaram suas rotinas organizacionais. O objetivo é compreender as estratégias que o Instituto, seus dirigentes e pesquisadores assumem face às transformações do contexto em que estão inseridos. Os conceitos de trajetória, evolução e aprendizagem, rotinas e rede tecnoeconômica são os norteadores do trabalho. Após um breve histórico das transformações mais relevantes sofridas pela instituição, entre 1970 e 1998, o trabalho foca na última década e na análise da experiência Centro de Engenharia Naval e Oceânica do Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas (CNAVAL/IPT). A abordagem metodológica é de caráter exploratório, combinando entrevistas com atores chaves, pesquisa documental, análise de dados primários e secundários e revisão da literatura sobre as transformações dos Institutos Públicos de Pesquisa (IPPs) no Brasil.

This article discusses the relationship between the institutional trajectory of the Institute for Technological Research (IPT) and the changes in ST&I policies, trying to identify the inflection points which impacted their organizational routines. The objective is to understand the strategies that the Institute, their leaders and researchers assume face to the changing context in which they live. The concepts of trajectory, evolution, organizational learning, routines and techno-economics network are guiding this article. After a brief history of the most important transformations experienced by the institution, between 1970 and 1998, this work focuses in this recent decade and in a experience analysis of Center for Naval and Ocean Engineering (CNAVAL/IPT). The methodological approach is exploratory, combining interviews with key actor, documentary research and literature about transformations of the Public Research Institutes (IPPs) from Brazil.