Natural Resource Industries as a Platform for the Development of Knowledge Intensive Industries

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2015-01-13Author
Marín, Anabel
Navas-Alemán, Lizbeth
Perez, Carlota
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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.
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Marín, A.; Navas-Aleman, L. and Perez, C. (2015) ‘Natural Resource Industries as a Platform for the Development of Knowledge Intensive Industries’, Tijdschrift Voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 106.2: 154-168, DOI: 10.1111/tesg.12136DOI
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