The scope of the Prospective Atlas
The purpose of this SRE instrument carried out in collaboration with UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) and UN-Habitat (United Nations Program for Human Settlements) was explained by Iker Jiménez, general director of Impulso Económico Global , of the SRE, during Why The Great Shoal?forum held in Mexico City.
“The Prospective Atlas is the answer we found when we realized that we had many tasks to execute and we had to do them in a very timely manner. In this way, we not only want to attract investment to Mexico in the economic and financial part, but also take into consideration for the first time the social, environmental and territorial and urban reordering issues ”, he added.
This tool, available at page of UN-Habitat, identifies the following five strategic sectors in which Mexico can invigorate its local and national value chains to incorporate them into the global market:
- Wind energy: manufacture of wind turbines.
- Pharmaceutical.
- Aerospace.
- Agroindustrial (chocolate-vanilla).
- Applications of products derived from petrochemicals.
In addition, it mentions five regions with different development potential in the country.
- Wind sector: the Monterrey-La Laguna corridor includes 38 municipalities of Nuevo León, Coahuila and Durango.
- Pharmaceutical sector: the La Laguna-Culiacán corridor takes into account 17 municipalities in Durango and Sinaloa.
- Aerospace sector: the Chihuahua cluster includes eight municipalities in this state.
- Agro-industrial sector: the Coatzacoalcos-Palenque corridor covers 34 municipalities in Veracruz, Tabasco and Chiapas.
- Petrochemical sector: it is made up of specific linkages with the other four sectors in 12 municipalities, four in Tamaulipas included.
“The Prospective Atlas was created after two years of improving its methodology. It is a very powerful promotion, attraction and investment tool that has precisely this characteristic, it is prospective, it is the seed that we want to sow today so that it can grow in Mexico for the next 10 or 20 years,” Jiménez commented.