Investigación y Desarrollo interna y externa e impactos sobre la innovación y productividad

Mario Tello Pacheco

doi:10.4067/S0718-88702025000100085

Authors

Mario Tello Pacheco Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-88702025000100085

Keywords:

External and internal Research & Development, innovation, productivity

Abstract

Encouraging innovation and productivity in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean is a central policy issue for these economies. Consequently, the objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of investment in internal and external R&D -postulated by many as motors of technological change and growth- on the process of innovation and labor productivity for a sample of formal manufacturing companies of the period 2009-2014 of a middleincome economy, Peru, of the region. The analysis of this impact is based on the estimation of a CDM model (acronym due to Crepón, Duguet, and Mairesse, 2008) of thirteen equations, which suggests that companies in Peru are not taking advantage of R&D activities (internal and external) and continue to depend on physical and human capital, and not on the results of innovation, to increase labor productivity. These results point to a greater diffusion of the programs that promote said investments.

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