The paper investigates the relationship between government interventions to promote investments in innovation and firms …

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

, Technology and Innovation Programs (STIP). The paper addresses the specific challenges of evaluating STIP, from the assessment of …

This paper attempts to establish a formal relationship between innovation and productivity using Colombian firm …` sales per worker, and innovation that results in introducing new goods and services to the international market boosts both … sales and Total Factor Productivity (TFP). Innovation in processes likewise improves firms` productivity and sales. Finally …

innovation were found to be significant, promoting a non-negligible acceleration of labor productivity gains. However, the … efficiency level. As firms’ behavior is differentiated depending on the type of innovation output pursued, the significantly … respect to products on labor productivity. However, the degree of novelty of process innovation is significantly inferior to …

information goods, based on von ippel's user-as-innovator principle (1988): as users benefit from innovation, they have incentive … to produce it, and as they can expect cumulative innovation on their own proposition, they have incentive to share it …

This paper aims at evaluating the impacts of innovation promotion programs administrated by the Colombian Innovation … and that the main channel behind this result is product diversification (product innovation). …

This paper addresses the relationships between innovation, research and development (R&D) and productivity in domestic … ICT firms in Costa Rica. Factors considered were the types of innovation outputs produced by domestic ICT firms, the … relative importance of innovation inputs, the impacts of innovation on firm productivity, the protection of innovations, and …