What hinders innovation performance of services and manufacturing firms in Mexico?

The impact of Triple Helix agents on entrepreneurial innovations' performance: An inside look at enterprises located in an emerging economy

“…By nature and more intensive in emerging economies, enterprises face obstacles to innovation such as resource scarcity (technological and human capabilities) and a lack of industry/market information (sectorial analysis, marketing and distribution strategies) that influence on their innovation performance (Santiago et al, 2016). In these scenarios, enterprises try to create appropriate added value for their products, service, or process through different types of collaborations (De Fuentes and Dutrenit, 2012;De Fuentes and Dutrénit, 2016).…”

“…Therefore, this type of collaboration enhances innovation with a variety of knowledge, technological/ commercialization resources, and skill endowments (Yamin and Otto, 2004). In emerging economies, several linkages with universities/research centers or the private sector reduces several constrains to perform innovation (Santiago et al, 2016).…”

“…It provides an interesting opportunity to explore the role of Triple Helix agents that provides innovation funds. In this regards, the innovation literature also recognizes that the main innovation constrain that faced enterprises located in emerging economies (e.g., Brazil, Mexico, Central America) is associated to the access to financial sources based on the scant and insufficient bank loads or venture capital markets (Santiago et al, 2016). Moreover, a common practice in emerging economies is that policymakers establish the requirement of the development of enterprise-university partnership or commercial partnership to receive some innovation subsidies (Cohen et al, 2002;Czarnitzki et al, 2007).…”

Innovation practices in emerging economies: Do university partnerships matter?

“…Aligned with the purpose of this research and previous researchers (Herrera et al 2016;Santiago et al 2016), we used the 2012 Research and Technological Development Survey (ESIDET, Encuesta sobre investigación y desarrollo tecnológico). This is a cross-section dataset that contains 10,167 enterprise-level data collected by the Mexican Institute of Statistics (INEGI) 2 to enhance the statistical information on enterprise innovation activities.…”

“…In the ESIDET survey, measured with a Likert Scale (1-4), we identified some proxies that captured the relevance of certain objectives for enterprises' innovation practices (e.g., to reduce variable costs, reduce fixed costs, reduce damage to the environment, comply with standards and regulations, and reduce the use of inputs) as well as the identification of certain obstacles for enterprises' innovation practices (e.g., economic risks, high innovation costs, access to financial sources, internal rigidity, lack of qualified personnel, lack of technology updates, lack of market information, legislative obstacles, and lack of customer responsiveness). Secondly, we also included several variables related to the structural characteristics that determinate enterprises' innovation practices according to the product life cycle, access to resources and the barriers (Alcalde and Guerrero 2016;Cohen and Klepper 1996;De Fuentes and Dutrénit 2012;Dutrénit et al 2010;Hewitt-Dundas 2013;Santiago et al 2016): Enterprise's age measured with a dummy variable that indicates that the enterprise has less than 5 years old (1) or more than 5 years old (0); Availability of innovation resources measured by the investment in R&D expressed in pesos and the number of qualified personnel; Enterprise size measured as the number of employees and expressed in logarithms; Exports measured by means of a dummy variable where 1 represents those enterprises that have exported and 0 otherwise; Company group measured by a binary variable that takes a value of 1 if the enterprise is a part of a company and value 0 if it is a single-unit enterprise; Technological sector using a binary variable to identify if enterprise innovates influenced by technological sectors or not; and finally, we also controlled the location, including the entrepreneurial density of the state where the enterprises developed their economic activities.…”