Development

The group's objective is to study development as a multidimensional, historical, and social process linked to people's capacities and freedoms. Democracy, education, innovative capability, productive sophistication, equality, and sustainability are essential development aspects.

Within this context, the group studies development from two main perspectives: from a territorial perspective, analyzing the long run process of local and regional development in Uruguay and Latin America; it studies various social, economic, and institutional factors as endogenous determinants that explain development processes; from a macroeconomic perspective, considering the systemic relations between Latin America and the rest of the world's regions. From this point of view, the relations between regions, their international relations, and productive internal structures are determining factors that limit development.

These two analytical perspectives are consolidated in four main lines of research: i) territorial development, ii) innovation, iii) public policies, and iv) sustainable development. Within these four lines, the group develops various research projects that investigate multiple topics like territorial growth and development indicators, Latin American innovation systems and networks, development trajectories and structural change, social capital, and social policies, and innovation and the transition to sustainable industries.

Lines of research

Territorial development

  • Territorial development, social capital, and inter-organizational networks.
  • Regional and local development: evolution and fundamentals. Emphasis on Uruguay and the Latin American perspective.
  • Local governments, decentralization, governance, and local financing of development
  • Methodological challenges of local development studies and networks.
  • Cooperatives and territorial development

Innovation and development

  • Innovation and development in middle-income countries
  • Innovation networks and systems
  • Microeconomics of innovation
  • Science, technology, and innovation policies
  • Innovations in Human Health

Public policies

  • Populism and public policies
  • Integrality of social policies

Sustainable development

  • Transition paths towards sustainable development
  • Environmental challenges of agro-industrial clusters

Members

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Recent projects and publications