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CHRISTIAN FELZENSZTEIN

Associate Professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, School of Business, Santiago, Chile

ELI GIMMON

Tel-Hai Academic College, Upper Galilee, Israel

(1) Economies that depend on the general development of the industry providing general benefits to individual firms (Marshall 1920)

(2) During 2006, Chile led the ranking of production and exports world-wide

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