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Institutos tecnológicos públicos en América Latina: Una reforma urgente
Bitran, Eduardo; Urrutia, Cristian M. González - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Los Institutos Tecnológicos Públicos (ITPs) en América Latina han sufrido un deterioro significativo de sus capacidades en las últimas décadas. En la mayoría de los países están a la deriva, sin que exista una visión y misión claramente establecidas, contribuyendo a su pérdida de foco...
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Costa Rica: The Next Stage-Reform without Volatility: A Report
Zamora, Rodrigo Bolaños - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999
This study assesses macroeconomic volatility in Costa Rica, based largely on politically weak governments' inability or unwillingness to effect key reforms. Notable problems include volatility-prone fiscal and monetary policy, structurally weak public finances due to large domestic debts and...
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Public Support to Innovation: The Colombian COLCIENCIAS' Experience
Crespi, Gustavo; Maffioli, Alessandro; Arjona, Marcela … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper aims at evaluating the impacts of innovation promotion programs administrated by the Colombian Innovation Agency (COLCIENCIAS). Although the agency implements multiple programs, the focus of these research are on those programs that provide financial incentives for R&D (matching...
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Evaluación del impacto de corto plazo de SENACYT en la innovación de las empresas panameñas
Crespi, Gustavo; Solís, Galileo; Tacsir, Ezequiel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
El presente documento presenta una evaluación preliminar del impacto que el programa de subvenciones a la investigación y desarrollo tiene en la dinámica innovadora de las firmas panameñas. Dentro de las limitaciones de los escasos datos disponibles, la metodología resuelve el problema de...
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Innovation Policy and Employment: Evidence from an Impact Evaluation in Argentina
Castillo, Victoria; Maffioli, Alessandro; Rojo, Sofía; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper presents the evaluation of the Enterprise Restructuring Support Program in Argentina. The aim of the program was to increase the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises by cofinancing technical assistance that can be classified as either support for process innovation or...
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Innovation, Firm Size, Technology Intensity, and Employment Generation in Uruguay: The Microeconometric Evidence
Aboal, Diego; Garda, Paula; Lanzilotta, Bibiana; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between innovation and employment, in terms of both its quantity and quality, in Uruguay. The effect of product and process innovation on employment growth and on employment composition in terms of skills was studied, using data from...
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Employment Generation, Firm Size and Innovation: Microeconometric Evidence from Argentina
Elejalde, Sheila de; Giuliodori, David; Stucchi, Rodolfo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
quantifies the impact of different types of innovations (process or product innovations) on employment growth and skill … Argentina for the period 1998-2001. The results suggest that product innovations have a positive impact on employment growth … while process innovations have no significant impact on employment growth. In addition, there is some evidence that product …
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Employment Generation, Firm Size, and Innovation in Chile
Alvarez, Roberto; Benavente, José Miguel; Campusano, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper compiles and analyzes several sources of information to shed light on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in the manufacturing industry in Chile in the last 15 years. Our overall conclusions are that process innovation is generally not found to be a relevant...
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Innovation and Productivity in Services: Evidence from Chile
Alvarez, Roberto; Zahler, Andrés; Ortega, Claudio Bravo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
innovation and the probability of introducing innovations (products or process), such as size and export status. In several …
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Innovation Strategies and Employment in Latin American Firms
Crespi, Gustavo; Zuñiga, Pluvia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This study examines the impact of innovation strategies on employment growth in four Latin American countries (Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Uruguay) using micro-data for manufacturing firms from innovation surveys. Building on the model proposed by Harrison et al. (2008), we relate...
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