(Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Uruguay) using micro-data for manufacturing firms from innovation surveys. Building on the …This study examines the impact of innovation strategies on employment growth in four Latin American countries … model proposed by Harrison et al. (2008), we relate employment to three innovation strategies: make only (R&D), buy only …

This study examines the determinants of technological innovation and its impact on firm labor productivity across six … Latin American countries (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, and Uruguay) using micro data from innovation … surveys. In line with the literature, in all countries firms that invest in knowledge are more able to introduce new …

Enterprise Surveys define innovation rates as the share of firms introducing product and process innovations. The survey also …In this note, a wide range of innovation indicators are analyzed in order to describe the innovation behavior of … manufacturing firms in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region using the recently released Enterprise Surveys 2010. The …