Given Puerto Rico’s colonial exclusion from Latin American and Caribbean regionalism and its ruling parties’ disregard for stimulating an industrial base of small and medium-sized local enterprises rather than U.S. multinational corporations, Puerto Rico needs to construct new pathways to inclusive socioeconomic development. One approach is articulating strategic and industrial policies to stimulate these enterprises from below by promoting value chains focused on exports or export potential. A proposed systematization draws on the experience gained in a project carried out under an agreement between the University of Puerto Rico and Puerto Rico’s Trade and Export Company to generate strategic export plans and map value chains for small and medium-sized enterprises.
Dada la exclusión colonial de Puerto Rico del regionalismo latinoamericano y caribeño y el desprecio de sus partidos gobernantes por estimular una base industrial de pequeñas y medianas empresas locales en lugar de corporaciones multinacionales estadounidenses, Puerto Rico necesita construir nuevas vías hacia el desarrollo socioeconómico inclusivo. Un enfoque es articular políticas estratégicas e industriales para estimular a estas empresas desde abajo mediante la promoción de cadenas de valor centradas en las exportaciones o el potencial de exportación. La sistematización propuesta se basa en la experiencia adquirida en un proyecto llevado a cabo en virtud de un acuerdo entre la Universidad de Puerto Rico y la Compañía de Comercio y Exportación de Puerto Rico para generar planes estratégicos de exportación y mapear cadenas de valor para pequeñas y medianas empresas.
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