process innovation on productivity in the Chilean manufacturing industry during the past decade. In general, the evidence … suggests there is not a contemporaneous effect of product innovation on productivity, but there is a positive effect of process …, the results show the presence of lagged effects product innovation on productivity two years after innovation. Compared …

examination of a different factor affecting firm productivity - innovation, ICT usage, on-the-job-training, firm age, access to … Innovation Dynamics and Productivity: Evidence for Latin America -- 3 Innovative Activity in the Caribbean: Drivers, Benefits …, and Obstacles -- 4 ICT, Innovation and Productivity: Evidence from Firms in Latin America and the Caribbean -- 5 On …

This volume uses the study of firm dynamics to investigate the factors preventing faster productivity growth in Latin … America and the Caribbean. Each chapter is dedicated to an examination of a different factor affecting firm productivity … - innovation, ICT usage, on-the-job-training, firm age, access to credit, and international linkages - highlighting the differences …

Recent research conducted by the IDB shows that innovation positively affects productivity growth in the Latin American … dynamics at play in the service sector in the region and the relationship between productivity and innovation in services (as … regarding innovation in services is related, at least in part, to uncertainty with respect to how innovation in services …

This paper analyzes empirically the relationship between innovation and productivity in the Chilean services sector … extensions we find similar roles for technological and non-technological innovation in labor productivity and for determinants … the case that even larger efforts need to be done to have better measures of innovation and productivity in the services …

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 focuses on two research problems. The first is to measure the direct impacts of innovation support measures … in Brazil, and the second is to test the hypothesis of indirect effects of innovation policies on non-beneficiary firms … innovation have different purposes, and sound innovation relies on both types of incentive. …

chains? What is the supporting role of the innovation system in GVC-driven learning and innovation processes? Empirical …