Exploring R&D Evolution in the Forestry Industry: The Cases of Chile and Finland

Author

Catalan, Pablo ; Moreno, Carlos ; Cozzens, Susan

Author_Institution

Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta

fYear

2007

fDate

19-20 Oct. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

12

Abstract

Natural resources based economies have followed diverging paths either by consolidating its raw material industries by improving its technological competitiveness or by falling in wasteful rent-seeking processes leading to stagnant situations. We explore the R&D evolution in the Forestry Industry by focusing on Chile´s and Finland´s case. By setting two datasets of 7,724 (Finland) and 1,207 (Chile) forestry publications covering the 1970-2006 period we analyze the trends followed by each R&D community regarding timing, institution, author and research areas patterns. We state that collaboration and multidisciplinarity are distinctive features of Finland´s R&D Forestry system, applied at a smaller scale by Chile´s.

Keywords

forestry; macroeconomics; natural resources; raw materials; research and development; Chile; Finland; R&D evolution; forestry industry; raw material industries; stagnant situations; wasteful rent-seeking processes; Educational technology; Electronic mail; Forestry; Industrial economics; Industrial training; Paper technology; Power generation economics; Public policy; Raw materials; Research and development; Chile; Finland; Forestry Industry; Innovation System;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, 2007 Atlanta Conference on

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1774-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1775-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACSTIP.2007.4472896

Filename

4472896