La maquiladora electrónica en Tijuana: hacia un cluster fronterizo (Electronic Maquiladoras in Tijuana: Towards a Border Cluster)

Upgrading to Compete: Global Value Chains, Clusters, and SMEs in Latin America

“…For more information visit our website: www.iadb.org/pub (Santos, Crocco, and Lemos, 2002;Lemos et al, 2000). In the case of the television industry in Baja California, Mexico, upgrading affects predominantly foreign fi rst-tier suppliers (Carrillo and Hualde, 2000). In Costa Rica (under Intel), there has been a very limited upgrading of locally owned fi rms into morevalue-added activities: "With the reorganization of the plant after 1999, the process attracts some other suppliers and promotes local interaction with the software industry .…”