CLUSTER formation, institutions and learning: the emergence of clusters and development in Chile

Perez‐Aleman, Paola

doi:10.1093/icc/dth063

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“…The networks with varied expertise facilitate learning by creating horizontal relations between producers, as well as links to organizations that can act as knowledge bridges between different communities and knowledge resources (14,30). The findings from these cases support a growing literature on developing economies pointing to the role of these networks in dealing with the uncertainties and pressures of new norms and of producing new products (22,(29)(30)(31)35).…”

Section: How Global Standards Interact With Local Institutions and Knmentioning

confidence: 66%

“…Knowledge is more than mere transfer of facts and data; rather, it means developing new competence to perform novel ways of working (26)(27)(28). This knowledge building contributes to improved or new products, processes, and organizations, all aspects typically associated with upgrading (29)(30)(31)(32).…”

Section: Development Process | Institutional Changementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The literature on clusters in developing countries has highlighted the importance of external linkages for upgrading quality and environmental standards (24,29). The discovery, use, and adaptation of foreign practices for local innovation have been used in the past for building local capabilities and transforming developing societies (21,22,25,40).…”

Section: How Global Standards Interact With Local Institutions and Knmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Global standards and local knowledge building: Upgrading small producers in developing countries

Perez‐Aleman

2011

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Local knowledge building is a crucial factor for upgrading small producers and improving their market competitiveness and livelihoods. The rise of global standards affecting food safety and environmental sustainability in agriculture sparks debates on the impact on smallholders in developing countries. This article presents a perspective on the links of international standards to knowledge and institution building for developing the capabilities of small producers. Interacting with global practices, indigenous private and public actors create local institutions to develop capabilities for product and process innovations that contribute to economic development and enhance food security. Local innovation depends on collective strategic efforts through increasing networks among small producers and other organizations, including firms, nongovernmental organizations, and government, that foster knowledge circulation and bring diverse resources and support to build local capabilities.

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Section: How Global Standards Interact With Local Institutions and Knmentioning

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Section: Development Process | Institutional Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: How Global Standards Interact With Local Institutions and Knmentioning

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Global standards and local knowledge building: Upgrading small producers in developing countries

Perez‐Aleman

2011

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…While the history of this activity began in the early twentieth century, it gathered particular momentum in the 1990s when a deliberate strategy to attract domestic and foreign investment began to unfold, in order to configure a growth model and territorial development based on the idea of a cluster (OCDE Chile, 2009;CEPAL, 2010). The southern coastal territory had been called the aquaculture cluster or salmon cluster (Pérez-Alemán, 2005) and this has favoured innovation and growth in the mussel export industry, under a common atmosphere of investment. In fact, the interest in these opportunities was remarkable, to the point that some salmon fishing companies expanded into mussel production (Fernández and Giráldez, 2013).…”

Section: The Mussel Seeds Of the Reloncaví Estuary: The Symbolic Valumentioning

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Collective action and symbolic capital in the artisanal fisheries: An analysis of the Local Food Systems of Reloncaví Estuary (Los Lagos), Chile

Saavedra¹,

Vázquez²

2016

Cult. Hist. Digit. J.

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ABSTRACT:In a post-industrial economy, it is as important to understand "material" productive processes in the local community as the processes through which global value chains "expropriate" or "co-opt" common immaterial assets. However, the literature on collective action and the management of common goods generally focuses on matters of the control and governance of material resources. The article commences with an analysis of the relations between the production of value, collective action and the rentier nature of contemporary capitalism and its entrepreneurial ideology. Then, we present a detailed analysis of the case of mytilid seed capture in the Reloncaví Estuary (Los Lagos Region, Chile). This case shows us the failure of modernisation policies which are based on converting local producers into modern entrepreneurs. To adopt a successful value strategy, a very different problem must be addressed, namely the difficulties of local communities in managing successfully their own common immaterial values. Faced with the dichotomous logic of neoliberalism, communities must reunite these immaterial values and the associated common material resources, and modulate the friction between them.KEYWORDS: post-industrial economy; knowledge; commons; immaterial value; rent; material resources; governance. RESUMEN: Acción colectiva y capital simbólico en las pesquerías artesanales: un análisis de los Sistemas Agroalimentarios Locales del Estuario de Reloncaví (Los Lagos), Chile.-En una economía postindustrial, es importante comprender los procesos productivos "materiales" en la comunidad local como procesos a través de los cuales las cadenas globales de valor "expropian" o "cooptan" los activos inmateriales comunes. Sin embargo, la literatura sobre acción colectiva y gestión de los bienes comunes generalmente se focaliza en el control y la gobernanza de los recursos materiales. Este artículo comienza con un análisis de las relaciones entre la producción del valor, la acción colectiva y la naturaleza rentista de capitalismo contemporáneo y su ideología emprendedora. A continuación, presentamos un análisis detallado del caso del cultivo de semillas de mitílidos en el Estuario de Reloncaví (Los Lagos, Chile). El caso nos muestra el fracaso de las políticas de modernización basadas en convertir a los productores locales en empresarios modernos. Para adoptar una estrategia de valorización exitosa, debe abordar un problema muy diferente: las dificultades de las comunidades locales para gestionar exitosamente sus propios valores inmateriales comunes. Enfrentadas con la lógica dicotómica del neoliberalismo, las comunidades deben reunir estos valores inmateriales y los recursos materiales comunes asociados, y modular la fricción entre ellos.

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“…World-wide, works of note include those from a range of sectors in: Latin America [18,19]; Chile [20]; Canada [21]; and the United States [22]. Also noteworthy is the work carried out under the auspices of the United Nations strategy for improving economic development and reducing poverty in developing countries [23].…”

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The Olive Growing Agri-Industrial District of Jaén and the International Olive Oils Cluster

Cohard

Parras²

2011

TOGEOGJ

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This article presents olive oil production from both the cluster and the industrial perspective. We distinguish both concepts to interpret the current reality from a territorial point of view. In this sense, we use the notion of the agriindustrial district to explore olive growing activity in the province of Jaén, due to the special social and historic relations that are involved in the organisation of production. On the other hand, we use the cluster concept to characterise organisational proximity linked to different companies which form the international olive oil value chain.The agri-industrial district has focused its attention on the production of oil to be sold in the intra-industrial bulk unbottled oils market. But new challenges are taking place upstream in the cluster, with new players emerging, especially in the distribution channels. In addition, downstream, we are observing the emergence of new industrial and service activities that could pave the way for the next structural changes in the rural development process in Europe.

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CLUSTER formation, institutions and learning: the emergence of clusters and development in Chile

Cited by 78 publications

References 64 publications

Global standards and local knowledge building: Upgrading small producers in developing countries

Global standards and local knowledge building: Upgrading small producers in developing countries

Collective action and symbolic capital in the artisanal fisheries: An analysis of the Local Food Systems of Reloncaví Estuary (Los Lagos), Chile

The Olive Growing Agri-Industrial District of Jaén and the International Olive Oils Cluster

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