Criteria for a proposal to build agroindustrial districts focused on public-private partnerships

Abstract

This paper seeks to contribute both to the theoretical reflection and the design of public policies focused on regional productive development, methodological and conceptual criteria for building proposals aimed at using public-private partnerships (PPP) as strategic support for the promotion of productive transformations in agroindustry activities within territorial contexts with specific characteristics. In this sense, we start from the hypothesis about the impossibility of economic and social development based on presuppositions of the classical development that current developed countries from Europe and the United States went through. The proposal is thus to induce the productive transformations required for a sustained take-off of productive development, starting with a boost to agroindustry through the creation of districts specialized in that production, with the support of PPP established by Colombian law. It is further determined that agroindustry is the proper way to generate economic development in a medium and long-term.