Dinamica strutturale, Risorse e Materie prime

Analysing long-term dynamics, it is possible to find that the scarcity of natural resources and raw materials has contributed to generating innovation and techno-scientific progress in industrialised economies. Just think at research aimed at achieving higher levels of efficiency in an industrial transformation process, saving inputs, or reducing waste when raw material is not abundant. Through cycles of revolution and innovation, this mechanism has loosened the antagonism between resource scarcity and commodity producibility, transforming it into synergy. However, the time and costs of the transition from the theoretical to the applied field cannot turn innovation into a factor of certainty in terms of time and mode. For this, supranational Institutions should provide more attention to the issue of resources, which also need concrete and lasting political support.