La empresa de base tecnológica y su contribución a la economía mexicana en el periodo 2004-2009

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze the contribution of the technology-based firms (TBF) to the Mexican economy. The study includes the revision of the sectors in which the TBF participates as well as the participation of the 4 firm strata by their size. The comparison emphasizes the contribution of the SME and the big-sized enterprises on the added value generation in the sectors where they are placed, emphasizing the general performance. The main highlights point that the Mexican TBF contributes on little more than 20% of the national manufacturing GDP despite being just the 2% of the total Mexican firms. Also it was identified that the micro-sized firms has the highest added value but the big-sized firms are the ones with major economy contribution. Additionally it was found that the increasing returns of scale are not a condition that affects on the performance of the TBF.