Natural resource industries as a platform for the development of knowledge intensive industries

Anabel Marín, Lizbeth Navas-Alemán and Carlota Perez

Nülan. Deposited Documents from Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales, Centro de Documentación

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Innovación; Industria; Recursos Naturales; Argentina; Chile (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-04
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Published in Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 106(2), 2015, pp. 154-168

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