o:30060 Natural Resources and Manufacturing Sector en Abstract: Serbia has certain potential in using natural resources, which was the base for strong industrialization of the country during the period after World War II. Having large deposits of metals such as copper and lead-zinc ore, and using huge resources of the brown coal deposits, Serbian manufacturing structure was predominantly founded on the metal-processing and thermo energy industry, processing industries such as food and beverage, textile and leather industry, as well as the engineering industry located in few industrial centres. After destructive deindustrialization during the 1990s, Serbian manufacturing sector try to recover mostly within those industries for which the foreign capital was interested in, both through privatization or new investments. The natural resources exploitation was and still is a subject of interest for many foreign companies, but still not having too much interest in renewable energy resources exploatation. Although the labour-intensive industries and industries relayed on cheap but qualified labour became the base of the contemporary Serbian industry, there is a potential in new industries such as software and ITC industry. Keywords: Natural resources, Mineral resources, Energy resources, Deindustrialization, Processing industry, Software and ICT industry 1552099 10.1007/978-3-030-74701-5_16 1552100 978-3-030-74700-8 2023-06-06T12:55:39.669Z 44 no 46 Emilija Manić Univerzitet u Beogradu Ekonomski fakultet 5629287 0000-0002-6592-1068 Milena Lutovac Univerzitet u Beogradu Ekonomski fakultet person 15640679 0000-0003-1932-071X application/pdf 1342099 https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:30060 no yes 1 70 1556235 11A03 The Geography of Serbia. World Regional Geography Book Series 207 220 2022