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Research in Business, Innovation, and Economy informs how organizations and governments design incentives, allocate capital, and build capabilities that translate ideas into scalable products and measurable economic outcomes. At the firm level, Eyring, Johnson, and Nair argue in "Nuevos modelos de negocios en los mercados emergentes" (2011) that multinational growth strategies in emerging economies often fail when they rely primarily on aggressive cost-cutting and near-zero margins, motivating business-model redesign rather than incremental efficiency alone. At the innovation-management level, Elder and Souder’s "Managing New Product Innovations" (1989) frames new-product work as an end-to-end management system from conception to commercialization, directly applicable to R&D portfolio governance and go-to-market execution inside firms. At the policy and public-finance level, "Latin American Economic Outlook 2022" (2022) and "Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean 2023" (2023) are used to connect growth constraints and fiscal capacity in Latin America and the Caribbean, while Galindo and Nuguer’s "2023 Latin American and Caribbean Macroeconomic Report: Preparing the Macroeconomic Terrain for Renewed Growth" (2023) explicitly centers a “triple social, fiscal and growth challenge” limiting development in the region. In empirical research and evaluation, Gómez Ruíz, Pardo, and San Martín’s "MODELOS DE ECUACIONES ESTRUCTURALES" (2010) and Matas’s "Diseño del formato de escalas tipo Likert: un estado de la cuestión" (2018) matter because they shape how scholars and practitioners measure constructs (e.g., innovation capability, social responsibility, city branding) and test causal models in applied business and economic studies.

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• ? How can firms operationalize end-to-end new-product management systems described in "Managing New Product Innovations" (1989) while adapting business-model choices highlighted in "Nuevos modelos de negocios en los mercados emergentes" (2011) to local market constraints?
• ? Which structural equation model specifications, as outlined in "MODELOS DE ECUACIONES ESTRUCTURALES" (2010), best distinguish between measurement error and true causal effects when studying innovation capability and performance?
• ? How do alternative Likert scale formats discussed in "Diseño del formato de escalas tipo Likert: un estado de la cuestión" (2018) change estimated relationships in innovation and marketing models, and when do such design choices alter substantive conclusions?
• ? How should optimal investment decision logic from "On the Theory of Optimal Investment Decision" (1958) be extended to settings where innovation projects face staged uncertainty and commercialization constraints emphasized in "Managing New Product Innovations" (1989)?
• ? How can regional macro-fiscal diagnostics synthesized in "Latin American Economic Outlook 2022" (2022), "Revenue Statistics in Latin America and the Caribbean 2023" (2023), and "2023 Latin American and Caribbean Macroeconomic Report: Preparing the Macroeconomic Terrain for Renewed Growth" (2023) be translated into testable firm-level hypotheses about innovation financing and scaling?

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