competition arising from trade reforms lead to increases in innovation? This paper attempts to examine the link between trade … liberalization and innovation using firm panel data on the Philippine manufacturing industry. With the framework of Impulliti and … Licandro (2009, 2010) as guide, a two-stage approach is tested where trade and innovation are linked via competition. A …

In this paper, results of the 2009 Survey of Innovation Activities are described and discussed. The term innovation … goods and services, production process, marketing, or organizational methods in a firm. Innovation data gathered in the … survey help better understand innovation and its relation to economic growth, and provide indicators for benchmarking …

ensuring the proper functioning of markets. It points out government's pivotal role in system innovation because of the … likelihood of its under-or-slow production by the private sector. MFIs have a clear advantage in process and product innovation …

Industrial development requires technological capability in industry. National innovation system is anchored on the … critical at the firm level. This paper describes the structure and characteristics of the Philippine national innovation system …, and compares it with the American, Japanese, and German national systems of innovation. It concludes that the Philippine …

regulatory framework. The second type of innovation is institutional innovation which deals with the changes in the structure …, organization, and legal form of the institution. Another type of innovation is the process innovation. This refers to the … technological progress). The last type of innovations is products innovation which refers to the introduction of new or modified …

for industrial upgrading and innovation. Both are present in the case study area of CALABARZON in the Philippines but the … suggestions were provided to strengthen the linkages that remain to be wanting but are important for stimulating innovation. …

empirical results provided an affirmative response to the question raised in this paper: "Does innovation mediate good firm …

government. However, industrial upgrading and innovation in the country was found to be weak. Expenditures on R&D are low and …