INNOVACIÓN Y SU INFLUENCIA EN EL DESEMPEÑO EXPORTADOR: CASO ECUADOR

Abstract

The innovative factor has become one of the main engines for the development and international positioning of companies globally. Studying the capacity and dynamism of those companies that have a good international performance has become key to the elaboration of policies and incentives by the government in favor of those companies that have not yet chosen to enter abroad. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the influence of innovation in the export behavior of the Ecuadorian manufacturing sector, determining those factors that were relevant in its export performance. For this, the variable export performance was modeled taking into account dynamic and characteristic factors of those exporting companies. Through the application of Logit models, this influence was estimated, from which it was determined that those companies that allocated their resources to Innovation in Product and Research and Development, increased their probability of developing internationally, being even greater said probability if the company was multinational in comparison to local companies.