In this paper, a wide range of innovation indicators are analyzed in order to describe the innovation behavior of … Surveys define innovation rates as the share of firms introducing product and process innovations. The survey also measures … nature of the innovation process in the region. Statistics about the performance of LAC firms are provided using different …

innovation introduced and the motivation behind it: product strategy innovators, cost strategy innovators and non …-innovators. Starting on this clustering, we analyze the relationship between innovative pattern (or type of innovation introduced) and wage …

uncertainty and innovation-driven competition among firms. In this work we survey the state-of-the-art in the analysis of such … of innovation diffusion; and, finally, (vii) we discuss the role of history in the evolution of technologies, that is …

the productivity of firms and the existence of possible complementarities between these different forms of innovation …