Download or read book Science, Technology, and Innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Juan Carlos Navarro and published by Inter-American Development Bank. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advent of the knowledge society has highlighted the growing importance of innovation and intellectual assets as sources of competitiveness and long-term economic growth. This book examines human capital and financial inputs into innovation systems, scientific and innovation outputs, innovative behavior by firms, the links between changes in economic structure, technological intensity, and growth, institutional development and public policy, and the status of one key crosscutting and enabling technological revolution: information and communication technology.