Exploring Firm-Level Innovation and Productivity in Developing Countries: The Perspective of Caribbean Small States

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Assessing the Impacts of Market Failures on Innovation Investment in Uruguay

“…Also, there is no evidence that obstacles affect our dependent variable. These results are similar to Mohan, Stroble, and Watson (2017) for Caribbean firms. Notes: ***, **, and * indicate significance at the 1 percent, 5 percent, and 10 percent levels, respectively.…”

“…They find that financial barriers are quantitatively important, especially for firms operating in the services sector. Mohan, Stroble, and Watson (2017) measure the effects of obstacles on innovation propensity, intensity, innovation outcomes, and labor productivity using a sample of Caribbean firms. They find that cost, knowledge, market, and policy obstacles hamper engagement in innovation activities, innovation investment, and innovation outcomes.…”

“…The methodology builds largely on Crespi and Zuñiga (2012) and Mohan, Stroble, and Watson (2017). Given that our goal is to measure the effect of obstacles to innovation on innovation propensity, innovation intensity, innovation outputs, and labor productivity, we need a model that captures the complex relationships between these variables.…”

Harmonized Latin American Innovation Surveys Database (LAIS): Firm-Level Microdata for the Study of Innovation: Dataset

“…The World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) and the Productivity, Technology, and Innovation Survey (PROTEqIN) attenuate part of this problem. These surveys provide firm-level data applying the same questionnaire in different LAC countries, allowing the production of new evidence on firm behavior in the region (Dohnert, Crespi, and Maffioli, 2017;Grazzi and Pietrobelli, 2016). However, since the scope of these surveys is more comprehensive than just innovation, and country sample sizes are relatively small, the usefulness to the study of innovation in firms is limited.…”