‘Low tech’ industry: a new path for development? The case of the salmon farming industry in Chile
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The economic activities related to food and agriculture are not usually considered as the conventional path to development. These are generally categorized as ‘low-tech’ activities and often considered as a transitional phase towards ‘high-tech’ manufacturing industries. This paper holds that such conventional thinking may no longer be true in certain contexts. It uses the Prebisch-Singer thesis as the starting point to question underpinning assumptions in present-day contexts. The perspective emerges that ‘low tech’ industry may actually require high levels of knowledge management and value creation. The Chilean salmon farming industry has shown unusually successful development to world leadership in a premium natural resource based product through catching up. Here it is examined as an example to look at the points raised in both theoretical and empirical literatures. In the learning process relevant to this industry, the importance of ‘organizational capability’, more specifically knowledge management, has greater weight than conventional and narrowly defined ‘technological capability’. The paper demonstrates how enhancement of such capability at meso level took place in the Chilean salmon farming industry in its attempt to participate in establishing global standards-setting processes. In conclusion, it is argued that the leap developing countries need to make may not lie between the sectors, such as agriculture to manufacturing, but rather between different levels of knowledge management and institutional arrangements to enhance organizational capability.
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Paper submitted to the Globelics 7 th International Conference 2009 , 6 - 8 October , Dakar , Senegal System building for better policy alignment in the South : the case of salmon farming industry in Chile
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