This Note is a part of a larger study oftechnological adaptation and catch-up in high-growth,nontraditional export sectors. Such study examined tensectors in economies with a reasonably stable macroenvironment, its objective being to understand whether, andhow government policies focused on the adaptation ofsuperior technologies of production in nascent sectorsspurred scaling-up, and led to rapid and sustainable growthin a relatively short period of time. The note focuses onthe Chilean salmon sector, which evolved from aquasi-artisan, family based industry, whose foundation forthis nascent sector was laid with the successful inceptionof salmon into the Chilean environment, using importedgenetic material and intermediate inputs. The governmentacted as a catalyst during this stage, starting the firstcommercial salmon farming operation in the country with thehelp of CORFO (Corporacion de Fomento), a public developmentagency of the Chilean Government, and Fundacion Chile, aprivate non governmetal organization (NGO). The latterresulted from a cooperative agreement between the Innovationand Technology Transfer (ITT) Institute and the ChileanGovernment created to facilitate innovation and technology transfer.
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