Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Pietrobelli, Carlo
Author-Email: pietrobelli@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT, and University of Roma Tre
Title: Modern industrial policy in Latin America: Lessons from cluster development 
	 policies
Abstract: Industrial clusters have developed in many regions and countries of 
	 Latin America. Active public policies have often supported them at the 
	 national (federal) and local levels, sometimes with the financial and 
	 technical assistance of international organizations. These experiences 
	 have been most remarkable, and share several elements of the 'modern' 
	 industrial policies that enjoy an increasing consensus in the 
	 literature. The vast experience of locally based forms of active 
	 policies that have proliferated in Latin America reflects a modern 
	 approach to industrial policies, and an example for other developing 
	 countries. Such approach has typically included clever interactions of 
	 private and government sectors, a process of search and discovery of the 
	 necessary public policy inputs, and an interactive design and 
	 implementation of these policies.
Classification-JEL: O25, O43, L14
Keywords: Industrial policy, innovation policy, innovation and learning, cluster
	 development, industrial clusters 
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 20190911
Number: 2019-031
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2019/wp2019-031.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2019031