| Title: | High-Tech Innovation in Emerging Markets: The Case of Mexico |
| Citable URL: | http://hdl.handle.net/10427/35275 |
| Author: | Barber, Tamara |
| Date: | 2005 |
| Citation: | High-Tech Innovation in Emerging Markets: The Case of Mexico, 2005. Digital edition. Permanent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10427/35275 |
| Rights: | http://dca.tufts.edu/ua/access/rights.html |
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Abstract: Submitted in partial fulfillment of the degree Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Abstract: This paper presents an exploratory study of innovation systems supporting the electronics and IT industry in Guadalajara, Mexico. Specifically, this study focuses on the effects of linkages with Regional Innovation Systems (RIS) and Supernational Innovation Systems (SIS) at the firm level. Analysis of data gathered in a 2004 survey of 39 companies in Guadalajara suggest that the RIS is more effective than the SIS in building and maintaining innovative capacity through R&D departments and overall R&D activity. The findings imply that, in the case of Mexico, the most effective policies to promote innovation will focus on regional linkages and capacity-building, rather than looking to firms with supernational linkages as a main source of capacity building and spillovers.