Learning and Innovation in Natural Resource Based Industries

ISBN-13: 9780367357368 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 190 str.

Allan Dahl Andersen; Anabel Marin

Opis

This book develops and articulates a new perspective on the relationship between natural resources and development by foregrounding issues of innovation, knowledge, and industrial dynamics. It was originally published as a special issue of Innovation & Development.

Spis treści

Introduction – Innovation in natural resource-based industries: a pathway to development?  1. Sources and contexts of inter-industry differences in technological opportunities: the cases of Argentina and Brazil  2. ‘Discovery’ of non-traditional agricultural exports in Latin America: diverging pathways through learning and innovation  3. Innovation, natural resource-based activities and growth in emerging economies: the formation and role of knowledge-intensive service firms  4. Capability creation in the natural resource-based sector: experiences from Swedish mining  5. Innovation and natural resource-based development: case of natural rubber sector in Kerala, India  6. The mining sectors in Chile and Norway, ca. 1870–1940: the development of a knowledge gap  7. Environmental aspects of natural resource intensive development: the case of agriculture