How do firms innovate in Latin America?

Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
Předmět:
l20 - Firm Objectives
o12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
o14 - "Industrialization
Manufacturing and Service Industries
Choice of Technology"
innovation survey
Industrialization
Choice of Technology
Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
o54 - "Economywide Country Studies: Latin America
Caribbean"
innovation
innovation strategy
Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
o33 - "Technological Change: Choices and Consequences
Diffusion Processes"
Latin America
Economywide Country Studies: Latin America
Caribbean
and Behavior: General
Firm Objectives
o30 - "Technological Change
Research and Development
Intellectual Property Rights: General"
o32 - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
Organization
Technological Change
Intellectual Property Rights: General
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences
Diffusion Processes
Popis: The study of innovation in Latin American firms has concentrated almostexclusively on the determinants and impacts of innovation investmentsand outputs. Less attention has been paid to how firms innovate. Thisstudy applies factor and cluster analysis to a unique dataset ofharmonized innovation surveys from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador,El Salvador, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay, to identify the maininnovation practices and strategies performed by Latin American firms.Three of the four identified innovation strategies can be linked toresults from similar studies using European firm-level data. However,none of these strategies resembles a strong science or researchorientation. An approach to "open management" innovation emerges asidiosyncratic for Latin American firms. These innovation strategies areassociated with differences in sales growth and labor productivity. Theanalysis also shows that firm resources and capabilities driveinnovation strategy selection.
Databáze: OpenAIRE