| Sumario: | This article explores the Mexican government’s strategy to build the technological capacities that would be required by the country’s industrial development. It studies the central role played in this process by the Bank of Mexico, whose leaders knew how to take advantage of the economic and political juncture arising from the Second World War, attracting the technological development experience that the United States had been accumulating with great strength. Unlike what tends to be emphasized about this period, this was not a history of isolationism, but one of international cooperation, in which the vision of certain Mexicans who occupied key posts in the government led them to work with both American and Mexican engineers and scientists to found an institution that would be key to the country’s technological development: The Mexican Technological Research Institute.
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