Trade and Innovation in Services : Evidence from a Developing Economy
Studies on innovation and international
trade have traditionally focused on manufacturing because
neither was seen as important for services. Moreover, the
few existing studies on services focus only on industrial
countries, although in many developing countries services
are already the largest sector in the economy and an
important determinant of overall productivity growth. Using
a recent firm-level innovation survey for Chile to compare
the manufacturing and "tradable" services sector,
this paper reveals some novel patterns. First, although
services firms have on average a much lower propensity to
export than manufacturing firms, services exports are less
dominated by large firms and tend to be more skill intensive
than manufacturing exports. Second, services firms appear to
be as innovative as -- and in some cases more innovative
than -- manufacturing firms, in terms of both inputs and
outputs of "technological" innovative activity,
although services innovations more often take a
"non-technological" form. Third, services
exporters (like manufacturing exporters) tend to be
significantly more innovative than non-exporters, with a
wider gap for innovations close to the global technological
frontier. These findings suggest that the growing faith in
services as a source of both trade and innovative dynamism
may not be misplaced.
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Bibliographic Details
| Main Authors: |
Mattoo, Aaditya,
Iacovone, Leonardo,
Zahler, Andrés |
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| Language: | English
en_US |
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| Published: |
World Bank, Washington, DC
2013-06
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| Subjects: | ADOPTION OF TECHNOLOGIES,
BACK-OFFICE,
BALANCE OF PAYMENTS,
BUSINESS ACTIVITIES,
BUSINESS PROCESSES,
BUSINESS SERVICES,
COLLABORATION,
COMMODITIES,
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY,
COMPETITIVENESS,
CONFIDENCE,
CONFIDENTIALITY,
CUSTOMER SERVICES,
CUSTOMIZATION,
CUSTOMS,
DATA COLLECTION,
DATA LIMITATIONS,
DESCRIPTION,
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY,
ELECTRICITY,
ELECTRONIC DELIVERY,
ENGINEERS,
EQUIPMENT,
EXCHANGE RATE,
EXPORT MARKETS,
FINANCIAL INVESTMENT,
FINANCIAL SERVICES,
FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS,
FIXED COSTS,
FOREIGN INVESTMENT,
FRONT-OFFICE,
GOVERNMENT SERVICES,
HUMAN CAPITAL,
INDUSTRY PRODUCTIVITY,
INITIATIVE,
INNOVATION,
INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS,
INTERNATIONAL TRADE,
INTERNATIONALIZATION,
JUSTICE,
LICENSE,
LICENSE FEES,
LICENSES,
MANUFACTURING,
MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES,
MARKET ECONOMIES,
MARKETING,
MULTINATIONAL,
OPEN ACCESS,
ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION,
OUTSOURCING,
PDF,
PRIVATE SECTOR,
PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT,
PRODUCT DESIGN,
PRODUCT INNOVATION,
PRODUCTIVITY,
QUALITY OF INNOVATION,
R&D,
REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT,
RENTING,
RESULT,
RESULTS,
SERVICES INNOVATION,
SERVICES INNOVATIONS,
TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS,
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION,
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS,
TRANSACTION,
WEB,
tradable services, |
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/06/17940726/trade-innovation-services-evidence-developing-economy-trade-innovation-services-evidence-developing-economy
https://hdl.handle.net/10986/15879
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