Critical Raw Materials and Economic Complexity in Latin America

There are minerals that boost economic growth and which are essential for the development of sustainable technologies. These critical raw materials (CRMs) were determined by models created for complex economies. This paper aims to examine the mineral policies regarding CRMs of the main Latin-American economies, and the role of their respective National Innovation Systems (NIS) in the pursuit of greater economic complexity. This is achieved through a comparative assessment method applied to the mineral policies of the principal nations of the region —Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia and Chile. In this way, we found that due to the simplicityof these economies, as well as mineral policies that disregard their respective NIS, the increase of the economic complexity of the states in question is compromised. This is characterized by the exiguous value added through the interaction of knowledge and capabilities regarding their mineral resources and industry.

• Tipo de recurso: http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6601
• Fecha de publicación: 2018
• Institución: Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
• Repositorio: RiUPTC: Repositorio Institucional UPTC
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.uptc.edu.co:001/11962
• Acceso en línea: https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/cenes/article/view/5426; https://repositorio.uptc.edu.co/handle/001/11962
• Palabra clave: mineral resources; non-renewable resources; economic development; innovation; sustainable technologies.; recursos minerales; recursos naturales no renovables; desarrollo económico; innovación; tecnologías sostenibles.
• License: Copyright (c) 2018 Juan Sebastián Lara Rodríguez, André Tosi Furtado, Aleix Altimiras-Martin