Velhos atores, novas práticas : desenvolvimento tecnológico e modernização conservadora no Norte de Minas Gerais

Abstract

This is a study about new forms of articulation of the entrepreneurial elite in the field of agro business in the North of Minas Gerais in order to implement a project of development that satisfies their interests as a class, starting from a context in which the help of the public area diminished drastically with the extinction of the Superintendence for the Development of the Northeast (SUDENE). The study takes, as a reference for the research, the movements of this elite for the construction of the Regional Technological Center in Montes Claros, so as to understand, on the one hand, the centrality of the historical role of these actors in the regional development process, and on the other hand, the way the slogan Science & Technology was chosen as a motto for regional development in the present days. This study also reproduces the historical path of two hegemonic models adopted for the promotion of regional development, which are: first, the model of development centered in the State as an agent responsible for the process and, second, the model of development rested on strategic actions of private actors.