This presentation on innovation policy development broadens the notion of innovation to include all sorts of "process … innovations" and organizational changes. Then it describes innovation and growth in a historical perspective to conclude that … innovation policies for development should include much more than just supporting formal R&D projects, more than just in "high …

classified as either support for process innovation or support for product innovation. Although these types of programs do not … difference in differences were combined. The study found that by supporting both process and product innovation … product innovation activities. …

Recent research conducted by the IDB shows that innovation positively affects productivity growth in the Latin American … regarding innovation in services is related, at least in part, to uncertainty with respect to how innovation in services … really applicable to innovation in service sector environments. This paper aims to provide a deeper understanding of the …

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 effect. The effect varies according to the skill level of the labor force …

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 …

This study examines the impact of process and product innovation on employment growth and composition in Argentina …, Chile, Costa Rica, and Uruguay using micro data from innovation surveys. Based on the model put forward by Harrison et al … innovations was observed. With respect to the impact of innovation on employment composition, there is scant evidence of a skill …

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 employment to three innovation strategies: make only (R&D), buy only …

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

Using a unique panel data of Dutch innovation and financial variables we empirically investigate how financing and … innovation vary across firm characteristics. The study also tries to gauge the extent of market failure due to the presence of …, debt financing and innovation choices are not independent of firm characteristics such as age, size, and existing leverage …