Compliance with the Private Standards and Capacity Building of National Institutions under Globalization: New Agendas for Developing Countries

Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy 2009This presentation was part of the session : Globalization of Science and InnovationThis material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying this information are expected to adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. In most cases, these works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. ©2009 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE.There is a widely held view that global private standards would eventually replace the national regulatory institutions in developing countries. The purpose of our paper is to suggest an alternative view to the above. We consider the capacity of regulatory institutions in developing country can be strengthened in the global context. We will look at the quality and sanitation standards for food and agricultural products, with cases of salmon farming industry in Chile and the fresh agricultural products in Mexico. The national regulatory institutions have been traditionally strong for food and agricultural sector. Two cases illustrate that role of national regulatory institution is still important but performs different functions in the present-day context