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Innovación en los países de América Latina y Estados Unidos

Resumen

Innovation occurs through the creation of new ideas or the improvement of a new one, which allows achieving a change and thus exert the necessary transformations to obtain the proper result. In the present work, the behavior of innovation, competitiveness and development in the countries of Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Brazil, Costa Rica and the United States will be analyzed. Essential and important components at the present time since it allows the growth of a country. Methodologically, in the theoretical part, the databases of the Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia were used, and in the statistical part, the databases of the world bank and RICYT. The results show the state of the art of the countries studied and a comparative statistical analysis of them. Finally, the paper concludes that Latin America has very low levels of innovation and does not invest in processes that provide research that improves the country's development.