Experiences in Subnational Industrial Policy, Local Economic Development, and Public-Private Governance in Latin America

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

Subnational industrial policies have been implemented throughout Latin America in recent decades in response to the demise of centralized interventions in industrial development and the failure of Washington Consensus-style laissez faire approaches. Such policies often engage with a multitude of actors in governance networks, and seek to build localized systems of innovation and production to develop the region’s industrial base and generate employment, income, and quality of life. The scholars in this panel come from Brazil, Argentina, Costa Rica, and the United States to discuss these experiences and to contribute to emerging theories on innovation, industrialization, and local economic development.

Sub Track

• States, Markets, and Political Economy

Session Organizer

• Pedro F Peterson, University of California/Berkeley

Chair

• Karen D Chapple, University of California/Berkeley

Individual Presentations

• Productive Articulation and Business Cooperation Policies. Lessons from the Argentina Experience - Andres Matta, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba

• Políticas para la Innovación y el Crecimiento Inclusivo en Costa Rica - Jeffrey Orozco, CINPE-UNA

• Territorial Governance: Linking Local Economic Development and Subnational Industrial Policies in Brazil - Pedro F Peterson, University of California/Berkeley

• Peripheral Regions, Precarious Governance - Karen D Chapple, University of California/Berkeley

Discussant

• Claudio Cortellese