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This paper evaluates the impact of two public programs, FONTEC and FONDEF, aimed at fostering innovation in Chilean …
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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 …
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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 … of innovation investment are much more heterogeneous than in OECD countries. Cooperation, foreign ownership, and …
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This paper evaluates the impact of two public programs, FONTEC and FONDEF, aimed at fostering innovation in Chilean …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651824
advent of the knowledge society has highlighted the growing importance of innovation and intellectual assets as sources of … competitiveness and long-term economic growth. This book examines human capital and financial inputs into innovation systems …, scientific and innovation outputs, innovative behavior by firms, the links between changes in economic structure, technological …
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understand the links between innovation and employment in Latin America and the Caribbean. Special attention is paid to the …
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Efficiency in energy use is crucial for sustainable development. We use cointegration analyses to investigate the effect of electricity on energy productivity in Swedish industry 1930-1990. Electricity augmented energy productivity in those industrial branches that used electricity for multiple...
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Electricity has been regarded as a typical example of a general purpose technology and important for the surge both in energy productivity and overall productivity in the American economy in the 1920s. This view was challenged by Nicholas and Moser (2004) based on patent statistics. We argue...
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