THEMATIC AREAS OF WORK

INSTITUTIONS AND ENVIRONMENTENTREPRENEURSHIP

INNOVATION IN FIRMS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENTEconomic growth depends on private sector

investment in innovation and new technologies.Successful firms are parts of extensive networks in which they compete as much as they collaborate, learn, gain critical mass and share public

inputs to make a unique mark in the local and global marketplace.

The ability of a country to adapt and take advantage of technological changes and dynamics of the global context depends upon its

entrepreneurs.

Institutions and enabling environments are crucial for promotingcompetitiveness and innovation in firms.

KNOWLEDGE AGENDA

CTI’s WORK PROGRAM / 2012

OUR KNOWLEDGE AGENDAINNOVATION IN FIRMS

Policy Issue Research in Progress Recently Published

Incentives for firms to invest in innovation

- Impact Evaluation of R&D Tax Credits - Innovation Gaps and Liquidity Constraints- Innovation and Productivity- Next steps in evaluating PDPs: spillovers,

program complementarities, heterogeneous impacts (with RES and SPD)

- Innovation in Services

- Innovation and Employment Series (6 Publications)

- Innovation and Productivity: Evidence from 6 LAC countries

- Public Support to Innovation: the Colombian COLCIENCIAS' Experience

- Evaluación del Impacto de Corto Plazo de SENACYT en la Innovación de las Empresas Panameñas

Technology adoption, transfer and diffusion

- Impact Evaluation of University-Industry collaboration

- The Role of Foreign Technology Innovation in Emerging Economies

- Consorcios Tecnológicos en América Latina

Development of specialized human capital

- Post graduate scholarship programs

OUR KNOWLEDGE AGENDABUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Policy Issue Research in Progress Recently Published

Firm linkages strategies - Toolkit to evaluate cluster policies (Regional)

- Test existing toolkit in Cordoba- Clusters as examples of private-public

collaborations- Value chains and SME financing- Global Value Chains and Innovation

Systems. Empirical analysis of their location decisions

- Social Network Analysis: Evaluation of Cluster Development Programs

- Los Sistemas Regionales de Innovación en America Latina

- Cluster Development Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean Lessons from the Experience of the IDB

- Global Value Chains Meet Innovation Systems

SME policies and enterprise development

- Impact Evaluation of SME programs in C & D countries

OUR KNOWLEDGE AGENDAENTREPRENEURSHIP

Policy Issue Research in Progress Recently Published

Encouraging Start-ups

- Understanding venture capital in LAC (with RES and MIF)

Developing Entrepreneurship

- Demands and determinants of entrepreneurship

- High Growth SMEs in Latin American Emerging Economies

- Developing Entrepreneurship: Experience in Latin America and Worldwide

OUR KNOWLEDGE AGENDAINSTITUTIONS AND ENVIRONMENT

Policy Issue Research in Progress Recently Published

Institutional Strengthening - Institutional Assessments of PDP agencies - Strengthening Institutional Capacities for Innovation Policy Design and Implementation

- El análisis de arreglos institucionales y programas de desarrollo productivo en América Latina y el Caribe Propuesta metodológica y resultados de prueba

Governance of Competitiveness and Innovation Policies

- Territorial Reviews- Public-Private Collaboration for PDPs

- Innovation Policy Reviews- Lessons Learned on Competitiveness Councils- The Imperative of Innovation

Standards, metrology, quality control and technology based systems

- Support for metrology, quality standards and technology based systems for SMEs

- The regional metrology - Infraestructura Nacional de la Calidad: Diseminación

del Plan de Acción Regional en Metrología en Centro América

Business Indicators and Innovation indicators capacity building

- Enterprise surveys, business development report - Statistical Compendium of Indicators

ICT infrastructure and systems that support firms and Public Policies for Broadband

- ICT, including broadband development programs, support for telecoms infrastructure, ICT programs for SMEs.

- Socio-Economic Impacts of Broadband in LAC

- Broadband as a Catalyst for Economic Growth and Social Progress in Latin America and the Caribbean - A View from the Industry