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Innovation and Productivity in the Argentine Manufacturing Sector

Arza, Valeria; Lopez, Andres - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

productivity and the realities of innovative activities in developing countries. Panel data for Argentina during the period 1998 … process innovation, which in turn explains labor productivity. The endogeneity of this three-stage process is controlled for … innovation, and both are important factors to explain labor productivity. Moreover, investing systematically in R&D implies an …

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Innovation and Productivity - Evidence from Six Latin American Countries

Crespi, Gustavo; Zuniga, Pluvia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

This study examines the determinants of technological innovation and its impact on firm labor productivity across six … technological advances, and those that innovate have greater labor productivity than those that do not. Yet firm-level determinants … productivity, however, highlight the importance of innovation in enabling firms to improve economic performance and catch up. …

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Technological and Nontechnological Innovation and Productivity in Services vis a vis Manufacturing in Uruguay

Aboal, Diego; Garda, Paula - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

-technological innovation), and productivity in services and manufacturing are explored using innovation survey data from Uruguay. This is the …) innovations are positively associated to productivity gains in services, but nontechnological innovations have a more important … role. The reverse happens for manufacturing; technological innovations are the relevant ones for productivity. …

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Innovation and Institutional Ownership

Aghion, Philippe; Van Reenen, John; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite-weighted patents). To explore the mechanism through which this link arises, we build a model that nests the lazy-manager hypothesis with career-concerns, where institutional...

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Patents in a Model of Endogenous Growth

O'Donoghue, Edward; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper examines patent protection in an endogenous-growth model. Our aim is two-fold. First, we show how the patent policies discussed by the recent patent-design literature can influence R&D in the endogenous-growth framework, where the role of patents has been largely ignored. Second, we...

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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Public Support to Private R&D: Evidence from Argentina

Binelli, Chiara; Maffioli, Alessandro - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

The paper investigates the relationship between government interventions to promote investments in innovation and firms-financed R&D. Merging a unique panel data set on Argentinean firms in the 1990s with a data base on different types of public support received through FONTAR program, we...

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Innovation, Trade, and Finance

Egger, Peter; Keuschnigg, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper proposes a model where heterogeneous firms choose whether to undertake R&D or not. Innovative firms are more productive, have larger investment opportunities and lower own funds for necessary tangible continuation investments than non-innovating firms. As a result, they are...

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Creativity, cities and innovation

Lee, Neil; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

The creative industries have long been seen as an innovative sector. More recent research posits that creative occupations are also a fundamental, but overlooked, driver of innovation. Theory also suggests cities are important for both creative industries and occupations, with urban environments...

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Complementarities in Innovation Policy

Mohnen, Pierre; Röller, Lars-Hendrik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper develops a framework for testing discrete complementarities in innovation policy using European data on obstacles to innovation. We propose a discrete test of supermodularity in innovation policy leading to a number of inequality constraints. We apply our test to two types of...

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Innovation and Employment Growth in Costa Rica: A Firm-level Analysis

Monge-González, Ricardo; Rodríguez-Alvarez, Juan A.; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

This paper studies the degree to which innovation by Costa Rican manufacturing firms creates or displaces employment, how different innovation strategies affect employment, and how these effects vary by firm size and type of employment demand characteristics (skills and gender). In particular...

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