Search

This article deals with the interaction between supply chains and territory, identifying two types of development: the “enclave” type of the rain-fed farming economy in the inland area known as the Secano Interior, and the “potential linkage” between this enclave and the greater metropolitan area of Concepcion. The benefits of the forestry and cellulose supply chain, which is of global importance, are not spreading through its territory, which remains underdeveloped. Greater Concepcion, the country’s second most important industrial conurbation, has not succeeded in establishing a positive connection with its hinterland via its economic networks or with the forestry and cellulose chain of the Secano Interior. This article is based on economic flow data from the 2008 input-output matrix, on surveys carried out as part of a National Fund for Regional Development project (fndr, 2008) and on studies of Chile and its development types (Falabella, 2000 and 2002). It argues for a need to create a territorial political platform for economic development to facilitate the restoration of production linkages.

Se aborda el binomio cadenas productivas y territorio, identificandose dos tipos de desarrollo: el “enclave” del Secano Interior y el de “encadenamiento potencial” entre dicho enclave y la Conurbacion del Gran Concepcion. Los beneficios de la cadena productiva forestal-celulosa, de importancia mundial, no llegan a su territorio, que permanece en la precariedad. El Gran Concepcion, segunda conurbacion industrial de importancia nacional, no logra conectarse virtuosamente con su entorno cercano mediante sus redes economicas, ni tampoco con la cadena forestal-celulosa del Secano Interior. El articulo se basa en datos de flujos economicos a partir de la matriz insumo-producto de 2008, en encuestas efectuadas en el contexto de un proyecto del Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Regional (fndr, 2008), y en el estudio sobre Chile y sus tipos de desarrollo (Falabella, 2000 y 2002). Finalmente, se plantea la necesidad de generar una plataforma politica territorial para el desarrollo economico que facilite la rearticulacion productiva.