This presentation on innovation policy development broadens the notion of innovation to include all sorts of "process … innovations" and organizational changes. Then it describes innovation and growth in a historical perspective to conclude that … innovation policies for development should include much more than just supporting formal R&D projects, more than just in "high …

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 presentation comments on Manuel Trajtenberg¿s paper Innovation Policy for Development. The purpose of that paper … includes discussing innovation policy guidelines for developing countries and employing the Israeli experience to derive … lessons for growth-promoting innovation policies, among others. Comments arise from the main issues introduced by the paper …

framework for thinking systematically about innovation policies for development, without venturing into specific, recipe … in some detail the case of innovation policy in Israel, which sheds light both on the promise and the limitations of such …