FROM REGIONAL CLUSTERS TO GLOBAL NETWORKS

In this new book, instead of a simple opposition to the new Chinese expansionist policy ("One Belt One Road Initiative"), Professor Mauricio Sousa argues that the European Union should start to formulate strategies to expand parts of productive processes of its industries to new markets in Asia, Africa and Latin America, in partnership with business groups from these developing countries. Thus, avoiding a new trade war, Eastern and Western countries would benefit from the coordination of development initiatives for these new markets, with many developing countries having opportunity to receive technologies and to train their workforce to new production patterns (such as Industrie 4.0), while expanding European, North American and Asiatic supply chains, optimizing new port and railway infrastructures that China has been building around the world. After explaining new technologies, innovations and new logistic patterns applied to green hydrogen production and transport (as methane, methanol and ammonia, for example), the authors formulate a strategy for expanding the operations of European renewable energy equipment manufacturing companies overseas, with positive impacts in developing countries, such as Brazil and Paraguay. Through this strategy, new technologies could be used to expand the EU industry (for example, providing technology to support the structuring of windpower and solar parks to be connected to hydrogen clusters in foreign countries) with the generation of income, technical training and social inclusion to all partners involved.