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Innovation Indicators and Challenges in Latin America: Insights and Strategies

This workshop explores innovation in Latin America, focusing on key indicators and comprehensive surveys. It highlights the unique environment of the region characterized by low science and technology expenditure, limited qualified personnel, and high public funding participation. Despite a high rate of product innovators, patent applications remain low, pointing to an imbalance in innovation strategies. Key obstacles include macroeconomic instability and inadequate R&D resources. The workshop aims to identify effective policies and foster cooperation to enhance innovation performance across Latin American firms.

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Innovation Indicators and Challenges in Latin America: Insights and Strategies

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  1. RICYT Red Iberoamericana de Indicadoresde Ciencia y Tecnología Innovation in Latin-America: indicators and surveys Diana Suárez Innovation Indicators for Latin America Workshop19 March, 2009Paris, France

  2. The LA environment • Innovative features • Low S&T expenditure • Low endowment of qualified personnel • High public expenditure participation • Low patent rate • Context • Unstable macroeconomic environment • M-L & L Tech goods • Low external insertion ¿? “Developing countries”

  3. Methodological Approach Macroeconomy Trajectories Incentives Institutional framework _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Innovation Strategy Innovative behaviours Purpose Impact Obstacles Obstacles Objectives Innovation Activities Results Funding and information _ _ _ _ _ Innovation System

  4. Innovation in Latin-American firms What can we test? • Results of Innovation activities • Expenditure on Innovation activities • R&D human resources • Links, cooperation and sources of information • Obstacles

  5. How can we test?

  6. 1. Results • High product innovator rate but low rate of firms that applied for patents, • Developing countries: more process than product innovators.

  7. 2. Expenditure • Low innovation expenditure with high deviations • Concentrated on capital goods (then innovators)

  8. 3.Human resources in R&D • Even the firms with R&D expenditure and personnel present low rates of efforts. • R&D expenditure and human resources are not enough to understand innovative activities.

  9. 4. Innovative strategies • Capital goods and R&D are the most important activities in terms of expenditure, • But training and engineering and industrial design are also important in terms of impact of the capital good acquisition.

  10. 5.Links and cooperation

  11. 6. Obstacles

  12. Summary and conclusions • Innovative features • Low, concentrated and heterogeneous innovation expenditure • High rate of innovators but low scope of innovations • Low cooperation rates and contradictory numbers • Macroeconomic obstacles (uncertainty and funding) • Implications • Importance of the subject approach and the integrated analysis (IA expenditure vs. R&D) • Simple indicators are not enough (efforts, results, scope and impact) • Deeper analysis of cooperation and links with the NIS • Endogenous vs. exogenous obstacles

  13. www.ricyt.org dsuarez@ricyt.edu.ar

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