Resumen

HADAD, Maximiliano; GONZALEZ, Germán  y  FERRO MORENO, Santiago. Nuts Cluster Impact on Argentine North Patagonia Actors and Territory. First Approach. Región y sociedad [online]. 2020, vol.32, e1273.  Epub 27-Ene-2021. ISSN 2448-4849.  https://doi.org/10.22198/rys2020/32/1273.

Initiatives to improve sectoral competitiveness are recurrent in Latin America, mainly channeled into formal and informal strategies classified as clusters, in their different meanings. In this context, the evaluation of the impact on the competitiveness of enterprises and territorial development becomes necessary. In Argentina, there are varied experiences, in general with little information on the real impact. The objective of the work has been to offer an exploratory evaluation of the impact of the incipient nut cluster in a region whose traditional activity is in crisis. The methodology was retrospective following the guidelines proposed in 2011 by Gertler, Martínez, Premand, Rawlings y Vermeersch. After the discussion of the counterfactual scenario, the paper describes the historical evolution of the cluster, the cluster’s objectives and projects, the sector's value chain and the impacts. The main conclusions reached are that access, flow and quality of information that has been circulating within the cluster has had significant and positive effects on performance. The impacts on the territory are positive, although the time for evaluation is still short. The main difficulty of the cluster is the scarcity of funding which limits its growth possibilities.

Palabras llave : cluster; performance; impact; agriculture; Patagonia.