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

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.