Multicriteria and efficiency analysis of innovativeness in Brazilian economic sectors.

Traditional techniques to evaluate the efficiency to innovate of economic sectors face two difficulties: heterogeneous sectors, and uncertain and imprecise information. In this article, a methodology is proposed to deal with these conditions in a set of Brazilian economic sectors. Heterogeneity is a...

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Publicado en:Innovation: The European Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 298 - 319
Autores principales: Pereira, Javier, de Oliveira, Elaine C.B., Morais, Danielle C.
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jun2024
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          Dirección de Investigación y Desarrollo, Universidad Tecnologica de Chile, INACAP, Santiago, Chile
          UAG, Instituto Federal da Paraiba, João Pessoa, Brazil
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        bootstrap
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