Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/89116 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-190
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
This paper uses two sources of information and different methodologies to analyze the causal effect of product and 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 notsignificant effect of product innovation contrasts with evidence of studies for other countries. However, the results show the presence of lagged effects product innovation on productivity two years after innovation. Compared with the case of developed countries, this evidence might be consistent with a very slow process of “learning by doing” on the part of Chilean firms with regard to mastering new technologies. These slow and frequently uncertain gains in productivity could help to explain the low levels of investment in research and development (R&D) activities by Chilean firms.
Subjects: 
Productivity
Innovation
Investment
Research and development
Chile
JEL: 
D22
D24
D92
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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