This paper evaluates the impact of two public programs, FONTEC and FONDEF, aimed at fostering innovation in Chilean …

The paper contains and impact evaluation of matching grants to promote investments in innovation on firm financed R …

Distribution of Rewards from Innovation', Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 10 (1-2), January, 175-200 -- Paula E. Stephan (1996 …-306 -- Wesley M. Cohen and Daniel A. Levinthal (1989), 'Innovation and Learning: The Two Faces of R&D', Economic Journal, 99 (397 … Economics of Innovation and Technological Change, Chapter 6, Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 182-264 -- Philippe Aghion, Nick …

to creating technology : the evolution of Singapore's national innovation system and the changing role of public policy …

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 …