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Working Papers

2017

1. Perfil de I+D en firmas industriales argentinas: la necesidad de construir capacidades
   Documentos de Proyectos, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL)

2015

2. This paper analyzes changes in the firm’s innovative strategy and how this impacts firm’s performance. The methodology is based on a cluster analysis over 800 Argentinean manufacturing firms with information from Argentinean Innovation (1998-2006). The period under analysis includes deep changes in the environment and provides good reasons to expect changes in the firms’ strategic behavior. Results show that some firms did change the strategy but some did not. A set of continuous innovative firms sustained a high-profile innovation-oriented strategy, with high productivity gains. Another group of firms also sustained the strategy, but a non-innovative one. Between these groups, a set of new innovative firms changed their strategy and caught up with investments based on high levels of capabilities, and this also led them to high productivity levels. Finally, a set of sporadic innovative firms show an erratic behavior associated with abandoned innovation investments which were not enough to impact firms’ performance. The preliminary conclusion is that understanding how firms’ strategies change over time is a key matter to understand how innovation impacts performance. This challenges path dependence literature and empirical approaches based on averaged innovation trajectories. Findings show that what the firm did on the past can predict only partially what the firm will do in the future. Therefore, there is not an average innovative behavior but heterogeneous responses which lead to different interactions between innovation and performance
   Globelics Working Paper Series, Globelics - Global Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building Systems, Aalborg University, Department of Business and Management

Journal Articles

2018

1. Matthew effect, capabilities and innovation policy: the Argentinean case
   Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2018, 27, (1), 62-79 View citations (5)

2014

2. Persistence of innovation in unstable environments: Continuity and change in the firm's innovative behavior
   Research Policy, 2014, 43, (4), 726-736 View citations (7)

Chapters

2014

1. The Argentinean system of innovation: micro determinants and meso–macro disarticulation
   Chapter 4 in National Innovation Systems, Social Inclusion and Development, 2014, pp 102-132 View citations (2)