Three Essay on Innovation and Productivity in Colombian Manufacturing Firms

Download or read book Three Essay on Innovation and Productivity in Colombian Manufacturing Firms written by Fernando Barrios Aguirre and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 2 This document focuses on estimating the effect of innovative effort on productivity, when it is disaggregated in terms of productive technical efficiency and other components associated with demand and unit input costs. These components are developed and estimated from panel data. I show that demand characteristics are the elements where the innovative effort affects in greater proportion. These results will be analyzed from the annual manufacturing survey (EAM) between 2003-2012 and the surveys of innovation and technological development for the manufacturing industry (EDIT) provided by the DANE between 2008-2012. Chapter 3 The impact of public, private and commercial financial support is evaluated on disaggregated productivity in the Colombian manufacturing firms and innovation counts. Although the results show that cannot be rejected that results of the central regressions reflect the selection instead of the effect of the different types of financing, PSM results show that the allocation of own resources to finance...