Competitiveness and innovation in the industrial sector of Uruguay
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https://doi.org/10.52712/issn.1850-0013-532Keywords:
innovation, competitiveness, industry, UruguayAbstract
Building from the strongly linked concepts of competitiveness and innovation, this study accumulates on the importance of both the innovation ability and the ability to handle different types of innovations as a basic condition for developing competitiveness. The analysis is applied to the manufacture industry in Uruguay -mainly formed by small and medium enterprises-, using information from 2001 through 2009. We found that there are signals of different innovation activities in the Uruguayan industry, though the innovation effort ranges intensely among the different industry sectors. We also found evidence that the firms that have innovated were also able to improve their competitiveness.
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