Harmonized Latin American innovation Surveys Database (LAIS)
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
| Předmět: |
o10 - Economic Development: General
o12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development o31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives Methodology for Collecting innovation surveys Estimating Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives Economic Development: General Management of Technological Innovation and R&D innovation microeconomics Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development and Organizing Microeconomic Data Data Access cross -country data Latin America innovation processes o32 - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D |
| Popis: | This paper provides the methods through which the first version of theHarmonized Latin American Innovation Surveys database (LAIS) was built.LAIS, which is made freely available through the Inter-AmericanDevelopment Bank, contains nearly 690 variables and 119,900 observationsat the firm level from 30 national innovation surveys conducted between2007 and 2017 in 10 Latin American countries, increasing the number ofcountries of the region with publicly available microdata. This paperdescribes how, starting from significantly different survey methods andquestionnaires between countries, criteria were applied to identify andselect variables from different surveys measuring the same underlyingconcept. It also discusses and guides how differences in surveymethodologies may affect comparisons even after the harmonization ofvariables. LAIS includes data on innovation activities expenditures,sources of information and collaborations for innovation, innovationobstacles, outputs and effects, protection of innovation results, andgeneral firm characteristics. Since LAIS significantly decreases thecost of making data comparisons between countries, it will allow morescholars to research innovation in Latin American firms and to tacklelong-standing unanswered questions about the importance of frameworkconditions in LAC for innovation decisions in firms. The dataset andsupporting documentation are available at:http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0004040 |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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