THE TECHNOLOGY BASED SECTORS IN MEXICO: AN ANALYSIS FOR THE FIRM SIZE AND THE PRODUCTION SCALE

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MOISES ALEJANDRO ALARCÓN-OSUNA
Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa
Mexico
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CLAUDIA DEL CARMEN DÍAZ-PÉREZ
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Mexico
Biography
Vol 23 No 4 (2014), Articles
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/rge.23.4.2778
Submitted: 22-09-2015 Accepted: 22-09-2015 Published: 22-09-2015
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Abstract

Many authors have remarked the importance of the Technology Based Firm (TBF) in

the last years, in part due to factors like innovation, production scale, technological change

and their flexibility in the production processes to create aggregate value. Instead of these

arguments there is not a definition of the technology based sectors, these sectors and their

technological level are described in this article. It is also analyzed the returns of scale and the

size composition of these technological sectors, where it is shown that the technology based

SMEs are as efficient as the large enterprises.

 

Keywords:

TBF, production scale, technology based sectors, SME firms, technological level
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