Abstract

ROBERT, Verónica; YOGUEL, Gabriel; COHAN, Luciano  and  TRAJTENBERG, Luis. Estrategias de innovación y dinámica del empleo en ramas productivas argentinas. Econ: teor. práct [online]. 2010, n.32, pp.113-158. ISSN 2448-7481.

This article explores the relationship between capacity development, innovation and employment dynamics in a sample of 403 industrial firms form different production networks in Argentina. It begins with the idea that the impact of the firms' innovative activities on the dynamics of employment does not depend on isolated efforts but on innovation strategies, understood as a set of coordinated and consistent innovation efforts, once considered the sectoral attributes of the productive network in which the firm operates. We propose a methodology in three stages. First we propose the identification of innovation strategies, on the basis of innovation efforts performed, using a factor and cluster analysis. Secondly, we investigate the effect of absorption and connectivity capacities in determining the strategies using a multinomial regression. Lastly, we analyze the impact of strategies and capacities on employment dynamics. The results of the econometric exercises show that absorptive and connectivity capacity impact on firms' innovation strategies, while they affect the dynamics of employment in terms of number of workers and in terms of their qualifications.

Keywords : innovation strategies; employment; complexity.

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