Relevance of Clustering in Regional Productive Development Applying Bioeconomy Instruments Application Case: Austral Chaco Region

Abstract

In a world as dynamic as the one we are experiencing now; it is necessary to investigate and reformulate the relationships between production systems and generate more equitable forms of distribution. Cluster networks or leagues have already proven their efficiency in reaching high levels of competitiveness and productivity in certain territorial systems, but given the characteristics of some developing regions, and in particular considering Chaco Austral Region in Argentina, it is important to generate a or model that catalyzes, through current resources, a transition towards change or improvement of the agro-industrial matrix from the point of view of bioeconomy, and therefore also towards a sustainable development of this territory, and necessarily that serves as model to apply in other territories with similar characteristics. For the study of the production units at the territorial, sectoral and business levels from the bioeconomic point of view, this work will consider, as a unit of analysis, a network of Productive Clusters preponderant at the regional level, with the territory as an operating framework. driving force in a center-periphery context, where development strategies are influenced by relations between different territories in an asymmetric hierarchy of power and flow of resources (typical of developing regions). Key words: bioeconomy, clustering, productivity, regional development