This paper analyzes empirically the relationship between innovation and productivity in the Chilean services sector … innovation and the probability of introducing innovations (products or process), such as size and export status. In several … extensions we find similar roles for technological and non-technological innovation in labor productivity and for determinants …

In this paper, the links between the investment in innovation activities, innovation outputs (technological and non …-technological innovation), and productivity in services and manufacturing are explored using innovation survey data from Uruguay. This is the … more consistently associated with the decision to invest in innovation activities across sectors. The main determinants of …

In this paper, the links between the investment in innovation activities, innovation outputs (technological and non …-technological innovation), and productivity in services and manufacturing are explored using innovation survey data from Uruguay. This is the … more consistently associated with the decision to invest in innovation activities across sectors. The main determinants of …

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 … innovation. This not significant effect of product innovation contrasts with evidence of studies for other countries. However …

shoe manufacture in Peru, which are served by the network of Technological Innovation Centers (CITEs), the most important …

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 …

This study examines the determinants of technological innovation and its impact on firm labor productivity across six … Latin American countries (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, and Uruguay) using micro data from innovation … surveys. In line with the literature, in all countries firms that invest in knowledge are more able to introduce new …

' innovation performance and productivity. Because most available studies focus on manufacturing firms, very little is known about … data from the latest available Mexican innovation survey, we explore the determinants of-including the barriers to …-technological innovation and the impact of innovation on service firms' productivity in Mexico. Results from a three-stage econometric model …