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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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Do Exporting Firms in the People’s Republic of China Innovate?
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
&D)-to-sales ratio, which represents formal technological efforts to create new products and processes, often at world frontiers. A …
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Do Exporting Firms in the People’s Republic of China Innovate?
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
&D)-to-sales ratio, which represents formal technological efforts to create new products and processes, often at world frontiers. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278092
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Do Exporting Firms in the People’s Republic of China Innovate?
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
&D)-to-sales ratio, which represents formal technological efforts to create new products and processes, often at world frontiers. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278245
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Innovation and Institutional Ownership
Aghion, Philippe; Reenen, John Van; Zingales, Luigi - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
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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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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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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