Full Description
People have been digging in the ground for useful minerals for thousands of years. Mineral materials are the foundation of modern industrial society. As the global population grows and standards of living in emerging and developing countries rises, the demand for mineral products is increasing. Mining ensures that we have an adequate supply of the raw materials to produce all the components of modern life, and at competitive prices. Innovation is central to meeting the diverse challenges faced by the mining industry. It is critical for developing techniques for finding new deposits of minerals, enabling us to recover increasing amounts of minerals from the ground in a cost-effective manner, and ensuring it this is done in a way that is as environmentally responsible. This book provides the first in-depth global analysis of the innovation ecosystem in the mining sector. This book is Open Access.
Contents
1. Global challenges for innovation in the mining industries Alica Daly, David Humphreys, Julio D. Raffo and Giulia Valacchi; 2. Recent trends of innovation in the mining sector Alica Daly, Giulia Valacchi and Julio Raffo; 3. Mining foreign direct investments and local technological spillovers Bruno Casella and Lorenzo Formenti; 4. Innovation in mining global value chains: implications for emerging economies Michiko Iizuka, Carlo Pietrobelli and Fernando Vargas; 5. The role of transport-related innovation in the mining sector Francesco Dionori and Maryam Zehtabchi; 6. Environmental regulations in the mining sector and their effect on technological innovation Maxwell Andersen and Joëlle Noailly; 7. Global trends of innovation in the mining sector: the role of commodity prices Alica Daly, David Humphreys, Julio Raffo and Giulia Valacchi; 8. IP use and technology transfer in the Brazilian mining sector Domenica Blundi, Ana Claudia Nonato da Silva Loureiro, Sergio Medeiros Paulino de Carvalho, Marina Filgueiras Jorge, Felipe Veiga Lopes, Gustavo Travassos Pereira da Silva and Vitoria Orind; 9. Innovation and IP use in the Chilean copper mining sector Claudio Bravo-Ortega and Juan José Price; 10. The miner act of 2006: innovating for safety and health in US mining Andrew A. Toole, James Forman and Asrat Tesfayesus; 11. Innovation in the Canadian mining sector Baharak Courtney Doagoo, Elias Collette, Sean Martineau, Amira Khadr, Marc Neville and Mazahir Bhagat; 12. Recent trends of innovation and IP use in the mining sector in Australia Rohan Amburle, Alma Lacken, Emma Francis, Deanna Trainham, Greg Maloney and Catriona Bruce.
