Service firm innovation Disaggregated sectoral classification analysis for Mexico

This article is devoted to innovation in services in Mexico. It is based on data from service firms surveys within the 2004 and 2009 economic censuses. These surveys cover all types of innovation, including product and service, processes, organisation, and external relationship innovations. The analysis also captures innovation at branch level, therefore going beyond conventional studies that focus on sector level. We compare results using technological trajectories from the Soete-Miozzo taxonomy (1990). Survey results indicate that though all sectors are innovating, degrees of innovation differ in line with the sector’s intrinsic singularities.