Green innovation in natural resource industries: The case of local suppliers in the Peruvian mining industry

Ana Sofía Aron, Oswaldo Molina

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Resumen

Concerns about climate change are gaining notoriety and are exerting pressure for tougher environmental regulations for the mining sector. Demand for sustainable methods of production has increased and has created opportunities for Peruvian mining suppliers that offer green innovations. In this paper, we follow the technological trajectories of a set of local firms who successfully undertook green innovations in order to analyze the main factors that determined their development and integration into the mining value chain. In particular, our findings show that these suppliers share internal factors such as highly specialized human capital and considerable technological effort that led to their innovations. Likewise, there are some external factors that drive innovation in local suppliers such as the market structure and value chains as well as linkages with stakeholders within the mining sector and research centers and access to external funding provided by the government. However, the examples of successful innovative firms are still scarce and limited by the captive structure of the value chain in the industry. In this structure, multinational mining companies favor incumbent suppliers with a positive trajectory in the market. The structure also generates financial constraints and a lack of communication and coordination channels among the stakeholders.
Idioma originalInglés
Páginas (desde-hasta)353-365
Número de páginas13
PublicaciónExtractive Industries and Society
Volumen7
N.º2
DOI
EstadoPublicada - 1 abr. 2020

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Funding Information:
Specifically, Qaira used public funding from the National Council of Science, Technology and Innovation (CONCYTEC), the Association for the Conservation of the Amazonic Basic (ACCA), the National Service of Capacitation for the Construction Industry (SENCICO), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). They also won a grant from the start-up competition organized by the Ministry of Production to finance their innovations. Similarly, both Green Mining Nueva Mineria and Green Metallurgy received financing from Innovate Peru, which is a public fund from the Ministry of Production that finances entrepreneurships. The former used it for the research they did at the chemistry laboratories at UNI, whereas the latter used it to implement their technology in the mining tailings of “Cerro El Toro”, a highly contaminated mountain in La Libertad. Lastly, Dinamo received a grant from CONCYTEC to develop their prototype for solar towers.

Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge funding support by the Center for Mining and Sustainability Studies (CEMS) at Universidad del Pacífico.

Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge funding support by the Center for Mining and Sustainability Studies (CEMS) at Universidad del Pacífico.

Funding Information:
Specifically, Qaira used public funding from the National Council of Science, Technology and Innovation (CONCYTEC), the Association for the Conservation of the Amazonic Basic (ACCA), the National Service of Capacitation for the Construction Industry (SENCICO), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). They also won a grant from the start-up competition organized by the Ministry of Production to finance their innovations. Similarly, both Green Mining Nueva Mineria and Green Metallurgy received financing from Innovate Peru, which is a public fund from the Ministry of Production that finances entrepreneurships. The former used it for the research they did at the chemistry laboratories at UNI, whereas the latter used it to implement their technology in the mining tailings of “Cerro El Toro”, a highly contaminated mountain in La Libertad. Lastly, Dinamo received a grant from CONCYTEC to develop their prototype for solar towers.

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Palabras clave

  • Green innovations
  • Natural resource industries
  • Suppliers
  • Sustainable innovations

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