CIECS   20730
CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES Y ESTUDIOS SOBRE CULTURA Y SOCIEDAD
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Catching up in Knowledge Intensive Business Service Sectors: the case of the Software and IT services from Argentina and Brazil
Autor/es:
MORERO, HERNÁN ALEJANDRO; BORRASTERO, CARINA; URIONA, MAURICIO
Lugar:
Sao Paulo
Reunión:
Congreso; XVII Reunión Anual de la Red Pymes MERCOSUR; 2012
Institución organizadora:
Red Pymes MERCOSUR
Resumen:
There is an increasing interest on Knowledge
Intensive Business Services (KIBS) in recent decades and the software and
related IT services sector is among the most dynamic and innovative KIBS. The aim of this article is to compare the
structural characteristics and the relative innovative performance of such
sector in two Latin American emerging economies: Argentina
and Brazil,
from a Sectoral Systems of Innovation perspective. First, we performed a comparative
description of both software sectors, based on secondary sources. Then, we
performed a quantitative comparative analysis, using primary data based on a
survey applied to software firms in Argentina and secondary data from a
survey from the Brazilian Government, namely PINTEC. Both regions showed specific structural characteristics which
produced two different yet successful, in relative terms, innovation models.
From the quantitative comparison however, Argentina?s SSI showed a better
innovative performance. At a first moment, a differential intensity in the innovation
activities could explain it from a quantitative point of view; but also the
qualitative comparison suggests that the timing of the sectoral policies itself
and it goals, like exports concerns, and the degree of coverage of the policy
instruments, could be elements that can help to explain this differential
performance.