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Innovation and Productivity in Services: Evidence from Chile

Alvarez, Roberto; Zahler, Andrés; Ortega, Claudio Bravo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

This paper analyzes empirically the relationship between innovation and productivity in the Chilean services sector … innovation and the probability of introducing innovations (products or process), such as size and export status. In several … extensions we find similar roles for technological and non-technological innovation in labor productivity and for determinants …

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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

) 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. …-technological innovation), and productivity in services and manufacturing are explored using innovation survey data from Uruguay. This is the …

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Public Support to Innovation: The Colombian COLCIENCIAS' Experience

Crespi, Gustavo; Maffioli, Alessandro; Arjona, Marcela … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

unobservable difference with the control group, COLCIENCIAS programs have been very effective in increasing firm labor productivity …

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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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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 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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Effects of Innovation on Employment in Latin America

Crespi, Gustavo; Tacsir, Ezequiel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

. (1998), employment growth is related to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to innovative and … innovations was observed. With respect to the impact of innovation on employment composition, there is scant evidence of a skill …

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Firm Size, Knowledge Intensity and Employment Generation: The Microeconometric Evidence for the Service Sector in Uruguay

Aboal, Diego; Garda, Paula; Lanzilotta, Bibiana; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

The employment impact of innovation in the heterogeneous universe of services was studied using data from the 2004-2009 Uruguayan service innovation surveys. The empirical evidence shows that the impact of product innovation on employment is positive, while process innovation appears to have no...

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The Learning Process and Technological Change in Wind Power: Evidence from China's CDM Wind Projects

Tang, Tian; Popp, David - CESifo - 2014

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a project-based carbon trade mechanism that subsidizes the users of climate-friendly technologies and encourages technology transfer. The CDM has provided financial support for a large share of Chinese wind projects since 2002. Using pooled...

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The Role of Foreign Technology and Indigenous Innovation in the Emerging Economies: Technological Change and Catching Up

Fu, Xiaolan; Pietrobelli, Carlo; Soete, Luc - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

This article explores in depth the role of indigenous and foreign innovation efforts in technological change and catching up in emerging economies. It also looks at the interaction between indigenous and foreign innovation. The article presents original evidence and argues that, despite the...

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