6.07. Impact evaluation of innovation programs in the chilean services sector.

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Palabras clave: Innovation, Policy Evaluation, Services

There is wide a consensus that innovation is important for productivity growth and that productivity explains a large part of cross-country differences in income per capita and economic growth. Moreover, there are several reasons why free markets do not allow achieving optimal levels of private innovation investment. For this reason, most countries around the world have implemented public programs and special incentives to increase private investment in innovation.1 In the case of Chile, since the mid–1990s, successive governments have promoted business innovation policies oriented to improving long-run productivity…