ICT sectors and clusters, local firm performance and employment generation in Latin America : final report

The presence and activities of ICT and IT-enabled Multinational Corporations (MNCs) helps the survival, entrance, and growth of domestic ICT firms through backward, forward, and horizontal supply chain linkages. Nevertheless, relatively low levels of supply chain linkages, and low frequencies of concrete benefits of these linkages, were reported by domestic ICT firms in all the study countries, Argentina, Costa Rica, and Uruguay. Lack of appropriate policies to support participation of domestic firms in MNC supply chains does not permit domestic ICT firms to take full advantage of the potential benefits of the presence and activities of ICT-enabled MNCs