Innovation and Productivity in the Argentine Manufacturing Sector

Valeria Arza and Andrés López

No 4681, Research Department Publications from Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department

Abstract: This paper adapts the Crepon, Duguet, and Mairesse (1998) approach to estimate the relationship between innovation and productivity and the realities of innovative activities in developing countries. Panel data for Argentina during the period 1998-2004 to estimate a structural model in which different types of firms’ innovative behavior—including in-house activities and the incorporation of external technologies—feeds into the probability of achieving successful results in product and process innovation, which in turn explains labor productivity. The endogeneity of this three-stage process is controlled for. The results suggest that all types of innovative activities are relevant to explain success in product and process innovation, and both are important factors to explain labor productivity. Moreover, investing systematically in R&D implies an extra payoff in labor productivity. These results suggest that investing in different types of innovative activities—and not only in R&D—and doing in-house activities systematically contribute to firms’ innovative and economic performance.

Keywords: Innovation; Productivity; Argentina (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O12 O14 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-eff, nep-ino, nep-sbm and nep-tid
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