Project description
Project name: | Review of the BHP Billiton approach to innovation in its mining services supply chain in Chile has relevance to Africa |
Project description: |
The BHP Billiton (BHPB) Cluster-Programme in Chile is a strikingly novel initiative for developing more innovation-intensive links between the company’s core mining operations and local suppliers in its host economy. It involves the application of well known principles of innovation system thinking and unusually a substantial investment in creating a demand for innovation as well as the more usual support to the supply of such innovations. The programme originated as a way of addressing industrial challenges in Chile, but it is also a component of BHPB’s corporate social responsibility activities and this maps closely on to new perspectives about effectiveness in that area. |
Start date: | March 2011 |
Duration: | 1 month |
Countries: | Chile |
Client: | BHP Billiton |
Funder: | BHP Billiton |
Team members: | Andrew Barnett (team leader) |