Innovation process represents the long wave of value creation and it is the main powerful driver of future economic … of Science, Technology and Innovation and discusses the factors militating against the translation of scientific R … importance of institutional framework and knowledge pool in the process of building indigenous innovation capability for national …

The underlying theoretical assumption of this paper is that if firms can imitate an innovation at a cost that is … substantially below the cost of the innovator to carry out the innovation, there may be little or no incentive to carry out the … innovation. Cost and time required for imitating new products and processes have an important effect on the incentives for …

This paper seeks to explore the types of innovation that are predominant in SMEs in developing countries and to … investigate the impact of these innovations on different dimensions of firm performance based on an industry-wide innovation … survey carried out in Nigeria in 2007. Although innovation is important for superior firm performance, our result found that …

This chapter seeks to make some contributions to the literature on firm-level innovation in Africa by attempting to …-wide study. We focused on the product and process innovation activities of firms between 2003 and 2006 and found differences in … the factors that drive them at the firm level. Our results further show that interactions matter more than most innovation …

This study explored the factors that explain innovation capability in SMEs in developing countries. This is important … manufacturing firms in Nigeria. The important factors that accounted for innovation performance were firm-level leadership and use … improved innovation capability. …

Focused on the efficiency of the Russian innovation-fostering policy, the research is based on an empirical analysis of … innovation support tools are affected by crowding out private funds by public ones. Besides, innovation policy design and …

In recent years the Russian innovation policy has made a significant progress that manifests in developing its ‘tool … kit’, increasing resource base, etc. However it has not yet succeeded in improving business innovation activities that … 600 Russian industrial enterprises the authors analyze key features of innovation in Russian companies under economic …