Benchmarking territorial del sector industrial en la provincia de Loja / Territorial benchmarking of the industrial sector in the province of Loja

Abstract

The following paper analyzes the manufacturing branch and identifies spaces with great exporting potential for the province of Loja, from a “benchmarking approach of selected sectors”. The sector filters methodology was used in the establishment of targeted sectors, to determine productivity activity where international benchmarking was done. The study was applied to the manufacturing industry branch, with a level of disaggregation of six digits under the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, 4.0 version. The data comes from the National Economic Census elaborated by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC).