innovation and productivity in services: evidence from chile

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Roberto Álvarez: robalvar@fen.uchile.cl; Andrés Zahler: andres.zahler@udp.cl; Claudio Bravo-Ortega: clbravo@fen.uchile.cl

innovation and productivity in services: evidence from chile

Published on Dec 27, 2012

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this paper analyzes empirically the relationship between innovation and productivity in the chilean services sector. consistent with recent evidence on developed countries, we find that services firms are as innovative as firms in the manufacturing industry. in the basic model, we also find that both industries have similar determinants of the investment in innovation and the probability of introducing innovations (products or process), such as size and export status. in several extensions we find similar roles for technological and non-technological innovation in labor productivity and for determinants such as skill intensity and financial restrictions. in general, our evidence suggests that that innovation input and output is associated with improvements in productivity in both sectors. since we do not find clear-cut differences, it might be the case that even larger efforts need to be done to have better measures of innovation and productivity in the services industries.

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