7. Latin America – Strategic Sectors
More than 90% of exports from Latin America are concentrated in the
following eight strategic sectors.
Exports - 2012 Argentina Colombia Chile Brazil Mexico
Energy 10.91% 57.24% 24.06% 26.19% 14.10%
Automotive 12.00% 1.40% 0.90% 8.63% 18.52%
Electronics 3.27% 1.95% 1.20% 7.89% 36.75%
Obtaining and
processing of metal
ores and metal
products 7.80% 11.06% 42.12% 9.35% 8.32%
Agribusiness 52.98% 14.91% 18.34% 31.85% 6.52%
Chemical
manufacturing 9.17% 7.79% 4.81% 8.08% 6.04%
Wood Products 1.26% 1.74% 7.16% 4.81% 0.66%
Source: The Atlas of Economic Complexity. Harvard University, with World Trade Data, UN.
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8. Trade between Latin America and the rest
of the World
Mexico, Colombia, Brazil and Chile export less than 10% of its products to
Latin American countries
Source: The atlas of economic complexity
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10. Technological Megatrends Impact
Technology push The comercialization of a scientific or technologic innovation in a defined market.
Clusters
Agro – Food
-Medical
Biotechnology
Intelligent
materials and
Surface
Engineering
MEMs
Micro and
Nanotechnology
New Energy
Technologies
Energy
Automotive and Autoparts
Electronics
Agribusiness
Obtaining and processing
of metal ores and metal
products
Chemical manufacturing
Wood Products
12. Region’s composition
Region Mexico :
Monterrey-Saltillo-Laredo-Reynosa
1. Mexico
2. Latin America
3. Strategic Sector
4. Icluster – Latin America
5. Conclusion
.
Region United States :
Dallas – Houston – San Antonio - Austin
Strategic Clusters
BUSINESS SERVICES CLUSTER
CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING CLUSTER
LOGISTIC CLUSTER
TOURISM CLUSTER
MAQUINARY AND EQUIPMENT CLUSTER
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT CLUSTER
TRANSPORTATION EQUIPMENT CLUSTER
MEDICAL SERVICES CLUSTER
ENERGY, OIL AND GAS CLUSTER.
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13. ELECTRONIC
EQUIPMENT
CLUSTER
The quantity of business
located on the US and
Mexico is very similar.
End Products and
Intermediate Products
companies are alike in
both regions.
This is a proxy of
complementarity in both
regions.
The following slide shows
a list of companies of the
cluster.
Productive
Chain Texas Mexico
End products
220
196
Intermediate
products
289
388
Main inputs
1,267
1,666
Marketing - 16,629
Services for
the cluster
supply chain
40,767
12,627
Related
industries
1,264
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In general, this analysis is a primer on the binational value chains, showing some
evidence of complementarity and identifying possible puntual areas of opportunity to
design binational regional economic development strategies.
15. Regional Economic Development
Strategies
1.It is essential to define the productive potential
opportunities of the Latin American countries;
1.Guide policy to strengthen strategic sectors or
clusters and
1.Guide efforts to accumulate core competencies
around the tech trends that have more impact on the
strategic sectors and
2.Create value through inserting the Latin American
economy in the knowledge economy and on the global
value chain.
Notas del editor
Thank you very much for the invitation to this conference.
The presentation that I prepared is based on the definition of strategic sectors for Mexico and Latinamerica, sectors where we need to focalize our efforts and industrial development strategies.
I organized my presentation in the following 5 points, first of all I will talk about the Mexican Strategic Sectors, then I will talk about the Latinamerican Strategic Sectors, combining these results with the third section, that define the actual sectors or clusters and the implications for the future, what are the tech trends more relevant in the near future. Finally I will talk about binational industrial or multinational industrial policy, and final conclusions.
In the following section, I will present the results of a study, where we identify the strategic sectors of México.
Using different regional cuantitative analysis tools, like location indexes, shift-share analysis and input-output analysis we identify 8 strategic sectors or clusters for the Mexican Economy, where two of them are related and concentrated in the south of Mexico (are the cases of Tourism and the Food Sectors), other 3 clusters are close related with the Energy Sector, showing the importance of the recent Energy Reform in Mexico, promising a high impact at least in the level of the economic growth in Mexico.
As you can see, three sector are very related with the energy sector, basically conformed by Extraction of Oil and Generation and Distribution of Eletricity, these three sectors are the following: Plastics, Processing of non-metalic minerals and fuels and the Chemical Industry. These three sectors shows weak linkages with the rest of the economy, however this situation will change with the recent constitutional reform on energy in Mexico.
The reform in energy will provide an increase of the potentail of the mexican economic growth, through Platics, processing of non-metalic minerals and fuels and the chemical industry; then on the industries reated with obtaining and processing metal products, automotive and autoparts and electronics, and finally affacting the food idustry and tourism.
In the following section, I want to show a similar analysis, but in this case based on exports data, trying to identify the startegic sectors for Latin America.
According with the following table, we can identify similar sectors, among them : energy, automotive, electronics, obtaining and processing of metal and metal products, agiobusiness, and chemicals. More than 90% of exports are concentated in theses sectores.
Following the numbers, to where this 5 latin american economies export, we can see that Mexico and Colombia concentrate the exports on USA, Brazil and Chile in Asia mainly in China, and just Argentina basically on other Latinamerican markets.
This basic analysis, provide us the importance of USA and Asia as the main markets to attend and retain for the future development of the Latinamerican Economies; but also reveals the lack of trade among Latinamerican Countries, and the necessity of regional complementarity to attend the Latinamerican market.
The first idea reinforce the necessity to attain higher levels of research and development to continue attending the biggest markets in the world, the second show us the necessity of allligned efforts to reinforce and integrate Latinamerican Value Chains.
In this section, I will remark the strategic sectors that we are talking about, but now I will connect this sectors with the future challenges.
According with Latinamerican Strategic Sectors, we can identify the most important tech trends, according with impact matrix showed in the following table.
These tech trends are:
Biotechnology
Intelligent materials
Micro Electromechanical Components
Nanotechnology
New Energy Technologies
The concentration on these technologies, developing capabilities on the latinamerican economies, will reinforce the strategic sectors just mentioned, increasing the complexity of the latinamerican strategic sectors, keeping the exports markets through getting more value along the global value chains.
According with these ideas, thinking on the importance of adquiring capabilities to sophisticate the latinamerican economies trough getting more value along the global value chains, I will present the following iniciative, associated with MUSEIC, Mexico US Enterpreneurship and Innovation Council, that we are collaborating now.
As an example, we can see in the map on the left, the Monterrey-Saltillo Corridor and the Border of Tamaulipas State, we identify on this corridor the different economic activities that conform the strartegic clusters or sector, at the same time we applied the same metodology identifing the strategic economic activities in the Texas state, and basically we found very similar sectors or clusters that is possible to complement and integrate.
Those sectors are:
All of this show us the importance of the regional economic analysis in the identification of specific sectors.
In this slide, I just show an example of the binational strategic cluster between northeast of Mexico and the main economic subregions in Texas, each point in the maps represents stablishments on both sides of the border, in the table the number of them along the value chain, clearly there is an economic complemetarity, that is possible to foster through armonized and coordianated industrial policies that can create better conditions for economic development of this Mexico –US region.
In general, this analysis is a primer on the binational value chains, showing some evidence of complementarity and identifying possible puntual areas of opportunity to design binational regional economic development strategies.