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Natural resource industries as a platform for the development of knowledge intensive industries
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2015-04Registro en:
Marin, Anabel; Navas Alemán, Lizbeth; Perez, Mariana Carlota; Natural resource industries as a platform for the development of knowledge intensive industries; Blackwell Publishing Ltd; Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie; 106; 2; 4-2015; 154-168
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Autor
Marin, Anabel
Navas Alemán, Lizbeth
Perez, Mariana Carlota
Resumen
In the innovation and development literature, natural resources (NR) are generally viewed as a curse for developing nations and NR-based industries as having little potential to innovate and drive long-term growth. This has led policy and development experts to opt for strategies to induce a shift in the pattern of specialization towards other sectors. This paper proposes a different approach. By exploring recent evidence from the Argentinean agricultural sector and the mining industry in Chile, it points to the window of opportunity that NR industries offer as a platform to develop knowledge intensive industries with which to support economic development in resource-endowed countries. The lessons drawn from these findings suggest that development strategies can also promote more innovative knowledge intensive NR-based industries rather than moving away from them. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie.