Technologists in Venezuela: a look from their participation in the Luis Zambrano National Prize and Popular Technological Inventive Show

Abstract

The Luis Zambrano National Award for Popular Technological Inventiveness is part of one of the three categories of the National Science and Technology Award; highest award granted to the Venezuelan State in recognition of the trajectory through the Ministry of Popular Power for Science and Technology to the highest representations of research development and the inventive and creative capacity of Venezuelan researchers and technologists. The following work allows us to give a historical look at the trajectory that undertakes various challenges from 2001 to the present; establishing detailed connection of historical data, unpublished data information collected and managed from the secretariat; hence the importance of making visible the systematization of the documentary history of this category of the National Award as a perspective that contributes to consolidating science and technology; as a public good with a view to the development of the nation.