on the benefits of the mining sector for economy-wide growth and development in Chile. This paper identifies some of the … good practice areas in mining regulation in Chile whose economy has shown strong growth over most of the last two decades … experience in regulating its mining sector and many areas where it could be well used as a model for other mineral rich economies …

contribution to productivity growth in natural resource industries by providing innovative exploration and development services …

In this paper we describe a richer framework characterizing the trade-off between exploration and exploitation with … growth perspectives and its asset base differently, depending on the degree of exploitation/exploration. We also show that … competitors’ R&D has important diverging effects on other firms which again depend on the degree of exploitation/exploration …