Resource Intensity, Knowledge and Development: insights from Africa and Latin America
Minerals economies often struggle to diversify their industrial base. Lorenzten considers opportunities for industrial diversification stimulated in resource based industries. This know-how can then migrate laterally to other industrial uses. The resource-based technology clusters programme of the Human Sciences Research Council and Mintek proposed that this could be an important way for minerals economies to…
read more >>Innovation in Resource-Based Technology Clusters: Investigating the Lateral Migration Thesis
Lorenzten considers opportunities for industrial diversification stimulated in resource based industries. This paper contributed to a joint programme of the Human Sciences Research Council and Mintek to explore innovation aimed at addressing the requirements of a country’s resource industries. This know-how can then migrate laterally to other industrial uses. The resource-based technology clusters programme of…
read more >>Resource-based industries – Innovation in Resource-Based Technology Clusters:From coffee production to machines for optical selection in Costa Rica
Guiliani reviews a case of lateral migration of technology from resource industries in Costa Rica. Xeltron, a domestic firm, is a producer of machines for optical selection, which was started up in the 1970’s as a knowledge intensive input supplier of coffee producers. Triggered by domestic demand, the company developed optical selectors for coffee beans,…
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