Análisis comparativo del sector ecoturismo entre Costa Rica y Colombia para generar estrategias de internacionalización

Por medio de la realización de un análisis comparativo de las mejores prácticas y la situación actual del sector ecoturismo en Costa Rica y Colombia y teniendo como referente las diversas teorías de internacionalización, se generaron numerosas estrategias de internacionalización para poder posicionar al turismo de naturaleza en Colombia como un sector de talla mundial. A partir del análisis general del sector ecoturismo a nivel mundial y profundizando después en Costa Rica y Colombia, se identificó el comportamiento del sector en Costa Rica para posicionarse como un país líder en ecoturismo, para así concluir con las estrategias de internacionalización comúnmente usadas en ese país y llevarlas al contexto colombiano. El indiscutible éxito del sector ecoturismo de Costa Rica en el mundo, es el motivo por el cual se tomó como patrón y base para dicho análisis comparativo. Sus prácticas y estrategias pueden ser utilizadas por el sector colombiano para realizar su proceso de internacionalización y de ésta manera mejorar su productividad, proyectarse internacionalmente y generar empleo para así contribuir con el desarrollo económico del país y la calidad de vida de sus habitantes.

Sectoral regimes, productivity and international competitiveness

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Quality management and competitiveness: the diffusion of the ISO 9000 standards in Latin America and recommendations for government strategies

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Equilibrium real exchange rates, misalignment and competitiveness in the Southern Cone

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The challenge of industrial competitiveness

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Industrial policy and promotion of competitiveness

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Equity, foreign investment and international competitiveness

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Corporate competitiveness in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Strategic knowledge serendipity and arbitrage & intellectual venture capitalists: An emerging breed of knowledge entrepreneurs; and Part II: Global and Local (GloCal) knowledge logistics for innovation and competitiveness. ACES Working Papers, August 2009

Strategic Knowledge: While entrepreneurship may occur as a natural result of personal drive, it occurs most often, most robustly and is most sustainable in an environment designed to encourage it. Potential entrepreneurs become active entrepreneurs when the conditions are most supportive of their commercial opportunities and their business thus helping channel the two key qualities they exhibit as individuals obsessed maniacs and clairvoyant oracles (Carayannis, GWU Lectures, 2000-2005) and (Carayannis et at, 2003a) towards the generation of sustainable wealth. So far, entrepreneurial scholars who turn into intellectual venture capitalists by founding knowledge-driven companies remain one of the least explored specie in the territory of entrepreneurship. GloCal: The increasing engagement of firms within global knowledge and production networks and their ability to source knowledge globally as well as locally (GloCally), for the development of innovation capacities will shape the future of UK's knowledge resources and its role in the global economy. Practices such as off-shoring R&D activities are widely adopted, creating challenging, and not very well understood, issues related to cross-country and inter-firm knowledge and technology flows. We seek to address the internationalisation and networking of research and innovation activities, including the roles and strategies of enterprises, universities, research centres, governments in a cross-country and inter-sectoral way, to assess the impact and the implications for sustaining and enhancing the competitiveness of UK firms and other British knowledge producers and users.

Global and local (GloCal) knowledge logistics for innovation and competitiveness. ACES Working Papers, August 2010

The increasing engagement of firms within global knowledge and production networks and their ability to source knowledge globally as well as locally (GloCally), for the development of innovation capacities will shape the future of UK's knowledge resources and its role in the global economy. Practices such as off-shoring R&D activities are widely adopted, creating challenging, and not very well understood, issues related to cross-country and inter-firm knowledge and technology flows. We seek to address the internationalisation and networking of research and innovation activities, including the roles and strategies of enterprises, universities, research centres, governments in a cross-country and inter-sectoral way, to assess the impact and the implications for sustaining and enhancing the competitiveness of UK firms and other British knowledge producers and users.

Micro-based evidence of EU competitiveness: The CompNet Database. National Bank of Belgium Working Paper No. 253, March 2014

Drawing from confidential firm-level balance sheets in 11 European countries, the paper presents a novel sectoral database of comparable productivity indicators built by members of the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet) using a newly developed research infrastructure. Beyond aggregate information available from industry statistics of Eurostat or EU KLEMS, the paper provides information on the distribution of firms across several dimensions related to competitiveness, e.g. productivity and size. The database comprises so far 11 countries, with information for 58 sectors over the period 1995-2011. The paper documents the development of the new research infrastructure, the construction of the database, and shows some preliminary results. Among them, it shows that there is large heterogeneity in terms of firm productivity or size within narrowly defined industries in all countries. Productivity, and above all, size distribution are very skewed across countries, with a thick left-tail of low productive firms. Moreover, firms at both ends of the distribution show very different dynamics in terms of productivity and unit labour costs. Within-sector heterogeneity and productivity dispersion are positively correlated to aggregate productivity given the possibility of reallocating resources from less to more productive firms. To this extent, we show how allocative efficiency varies across countries, and more interestingly, over different periods of time. Finally, we apply the new database to illustrate the importance of productivity dispersion to explain aggregate trade results.