Innovación y desarrollo territorial en aglomeraciones industriales periféricas: el caso del Polo Petroquímico de Bahía Blanca (Argentina)

Identifier:  imarina:6408619

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/imarina6408619

Authors:  Carmen Cincunegui, Ignasi Brunet Icart

Abstract:
Since the 1980s, under a post-fordism scenery an “ima-gery” has been developed that represents regions as carriers of an opportunity for being more flexible and innovative than large natio-nal units. It has been emphasized also that foreign investments have an impact on innovation initiatives when an articulated social, eco-nomic and institutional context open to novelty and change exists. Regions, therefore, abandoned their position as “objects” of de-velopment to become “subjects” in charge of their own territorial development process. Under this new perspective, this article pre-sents results of a study on innovation and territorial development in peripheral industrial agglomerations. This research analyses in the case of Bahía Blanca’s Petrochemical Pole. Investigates whether lar-ge enterprises activities have promoted territory’s competitiveness by pushing the advantages of proximity and located interaction.