ABSTRACT
The analytical part of the plan confirmed that although scientific and technological activities had experienced constant expansion, their excessive dependence on science and technology advancement patterns in the industrialized countries resulted largely in the system becoming its copy. The plan defined policy objectives and guidelines in the exact and natural sciences, and the social sciences. A similar exercise was done for technological development for each priority productive sector. The divorce between the technically complex needs of the productive system and activities of the scientific and technological community was encouraged by the structure and the preferences of the latter. The new programme, which ignored the recommendations of a 1976 plan submitted shortly before the change of government, provoked considerable criticism in the scientific community, as a convincing proof of the recurrent absence of continuity in scientific and technological policy. The plan's basic goals were: scientific development, cultural autonomy and technological self-determination.
