however the colombian innovation system is still small overly centred on state actors and performs well below the level required for its sustained development the share of gdp due to nonmanufacturing industry mining including petroleum construction utilities increased rapidly from less than a tenth to over a fifth of output while the manufacturing sector either stagnated or contracted falling from just over a fifth to about a sixth of output this may reflect a significant longterm trend of relative demanufacturisation which mirrors to some degree the experience of other latin american countries as the scale and scope of manufacturing exports especially from asia has increased