Learning and Innovation in Natural Resource Based Industries

<p>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.</p><p></p><p>Despite growing academic attention to the relationship between economic development and natural resources in social sciences, the issue has received rather limited attention in the field of Innovation Studies. This is problematic given the centrality of innovation and technological change for growth and development. Against that background, this book makes three contributions. Firstly, it summarizes and synthesizes existing insights about learning and innovation in Natural Resource Based Industries. Secondly, it develops new insights based on original research work. Thirdly, it distils and explains the remaining research challenges in the field. </p><p></p><p>Containing important insights for researchers, businesses, and policymakers, this book will be useful to all those with an interest in navigating a natural resource based development pathway. This book was originally published as a special issue of <i>Innovation and Development.</i></p> <p>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</p>