Abstract
This paper gives an account of the technological behaviour of manufacturing enterprises in Mexico, with emphasis on the empirical descriptive work provided by the official data, as well as on the academic research in the field of innovation economy and technological change. We show that the Mexican manufacturing enterprises have a low technological dynamism, with scarce technological activities of their own whose main objectives are the production expansion and the increasing improvement of the productive processes. These activities rely mainly on the accumulation of internal know-how, in particular by engineers, and do not relate to other market or institutional agents. At a regional level, there are also a number of disparities as exemplified by the case of the State of Guanajuato. In this paper, we present the result of a survey on innovation of the manufacturing enterprises located in the above mentioned State.References
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