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Sources and contexts of inter-industry differences in technological opportunities: the cases of Argentina and Brazil

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  • Anabel Marìn
  • Sergio Petralia

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It is widely accepted within the innovation and development literatures that some industries offer higher potential for growth and development than others. The general idea is that industries with high technological dynamism offer higher potential for growth and development. There is still a large element of uncertainty, however, as to which are the most dynamic industries for each country. This paper proposes to use the concept of technological opportunity (TO) to investigate the technological dynamism of manufacturing industries of two Latin American Countries (LACs): Argentina and Brazil. Our results do not support the well-spread idea that traditional industries, in particular those strongly associated with natural resources (NRs), have and create less TOs, and therefore are less dynamic than others. They question, therefore, the adequacy of generic policies aimed at encouraging ‘high-tech’ sectors, and suggest that context-specific research needs to be conducted to identify which are the technologically dynamic industries within each country.

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  • Anabel Marìn & Sergio Petralia, 2018. "Sources and contexts of inter-industry differences in technological opportunities: the cases of Argentina and Brazil," Innovation and Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 8(1), pages 29-57, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:riadxx:v:8:y:2018:i:1:p:29-57
    DOI: 10.1080/2157930X.2018.1429191
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    1. Pereira Cabral, Bernardo & Lage de Sousa, Filipe & Canêdo-Pinheiro, Mauricio, 2020. "Assessing the impacts of innovation barriers: a qualitative analysis of Brazil's natural resources industry," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 68(C).
    2. Arza,Valeria Luciana & Cirera,Xavier & Colonna,Agustina & Lopez,Emanuel, 2020. "Explaining Differences in the Returns to R&D in Argentina : The Role of Contextual Factors and Complementarities," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9219, The World Bank.
    3. Darío Vázquez, 2020. "Variety patterns in defense and health technological systems: evidence from international trade data," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, vol. 30(4), pages 949-988, September.
    4. Bachmann, Federico & Liseras, Natacha & Graña, Fernando Manuel, 2021. "Innovative performance and firm size: a meta-regression analysis," Nülan. Deposited Documents 3614, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales, Centro de Documentación.

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