Latin America and the Caribbean is recognized as a region of entrepreneurs, as evidenced by the high amount of ventures per capita; however, just a few number of companies export and most of them show a weak growth and little innovation. Using information from the GEM database – Colombia 2010...

Globalization pushes companies to operate abroad and a successful innovative posture could be a key to access the export market in a global economy. In turn, innovativeness reflects the tendency to new-idea generation, novelty, and creative processes, which may be explained by experiences and...