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 … results show the presence of lagged effects product innovation on productivity two years after innovation. Compared with the …

The paper analyses productivity spillovers from foreign MNEs on domestic manufacturing firms. Using a database on …

temporary cut in corporate income tax rates leads to a long-lasting increase in innovation and productivity, whereas changes in …

-level research and development (R&D) investment in Chile on firm productivity. Because the two programs target different kinds of … projects - the National Productivity and Technological Development Fund (FONTEC) subsidizes intramural R&D, while the Science … have had a positive impact on participants' productivity, only FONDEF-funded projects have generated positive spillovers on …

This research sheds light on the role of product scope on the innovation activity of multinational multi-product firms …. We use patent citation data to break down innovation into two types by measuring the degree to which innovation performed … focus on two features in multinational production: (i) fundamental innovation is geographically more difficult to transfer …

The effect of market competition on firm innovation remains controversial, especially in the context of developing … countries. This paper presents new empirical evidence about the causal impact of competition on firm innovation for Chilean and … Colombian manufacturing firms. Using instrumental-variable estimation, our results show that market competition increases firm …