Ecuador is one of the least diversified countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, depending heavily on oil and … agriculture. This policy paper examines how services and innovation can play a role in transforming the Ecuadorian economy from …'s economic growth (albeit below the average for the region). However, the services sector in Ecuador performs poorly in …

to innovation and competition using data from the EBRD-WB Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS … competition and innovation have a simultaneous positive effect on labour productivity in terms of either sales or value added per …, exports, or population density. Innovation and foreign ownership appear to be the strongest drivers of multifactor …

find that competition has a negative effect on innovation, especially for firms further from the efficiency frontier, and … we do not find support for an inverted U effect of competition on innovation. The authors show that the supply chain of … multinational enterprises and international trade are important channels for domestic firms' innovation. They detect no evidence …

and evolutionary economics and the endogeneous growth literature highlight the role of innovation activities in enabling … market share, is postulated to depend on indicators of firms' innovation behaviour such as improvements in cost …

find that competition has a negative effect on innovation, especially for firms further from the efficiency frontier, and … we do not find support for an inverted U effect of competition on innovation. The authors show that the supply chain of … multinational enterprises and international trade are important channels for domestic firms' innovation. They detect no evidence …