The role of public policies in promoting innovations and innovation complementarities in developing countries: The case of Argentinian software industry

MORERO, HERNÁN ALEJANDRO

Innovation in Developing and Transition Countries: Learning, Collaboration and Public Policy

Edward Elgar Publishers

Año: 2017; p. 109 - 130

AbstractSuccessful innovation in firms depends on the developmentand integration of newknowledge into the innovation processes, which usually comesfrom different sources.Largely, industrial and innovation economics literaturestudies the degree to whichinternal and external knowledge sources are complementary orsubstitutes for theinnovation process. This chapter discusses the relevance ofinnovation complementaritiesfor developing economies with specific focus on policyimplications. As an illustrativecase, the chapter presents an application of moderncomplementarity tests (super and submodularity tests) to a knowledge-intensive business servicessector from an emergingeconomy. The chapter uses technological micro data ofsoftware firms of Argentina andconsiders estimation results in light of industrial policyimplemented in the country.