Critical Raw Materials and Economic Complexity in Latin America

Abstract

Keywords

mineral resources, non-renewable resources, economic development, innovation, sustainable technologies.

Author Biography

Juan Sebastián Lara Rodríguez

Administrador de Empresas, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Candidato a Magister en Política Científica y Tecnológica, Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Becario Consejo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico

André Tosi Furtado

Economista, Magister y Doctor en Ciencias Económicas, Université Paris I Pantheón Sorbonne, Pos-Doctorado. Centre de Recherche Sur L'environnment et le Développement, Profesor Títular.

Aleix Altimiras-Martin

Ingeniero y Magister en Ingeniería Mecánica, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, y École Centrale de Paris, Doctor en Economía Agrícola, University of Cambridge, Profesor.

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