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This study investigates the impact of internal and external research and development (R&D) on the innovation … stronger for Indian SMEs. The negative relationship between firm size and innovation output implies that SMEs in both countries …&D has been examined for both countries. The study is unique in comparing Indian and Pakistani SMEs innovation activities …
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This paper aims to examine how the diversity of global engagement is related to firms' participation in innovation … activities, i.e., foreign trade and foreign direct investment. Incidences of innovation for ten innovation activities are … computed. The incidence of innovation was used to examine the extent to which different global engagement groups participate in …
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Infrastructure is often seen as a critical factor in economic development. However, impact assessment for infrastructure projects is a challenge due to a number of methodological issues. Both developing economies and countries in transition could benefit from such studies to better inform their...
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measured by technical efficiency, export performance, and technological innovation. This study also examines the key factors … performance as measured by export performance and technological innovation performance. The results also reveal that financial …
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This paper examines the bidirectional causality between innovation and internationalization in the context of …, past internationalization has a positive effect on process innovation, but past process innovation does not have a … process innovation and the internationalization decision. Our results, however, do not show dynamic interdependence between …
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Innovation plays a critical role in shaping the industrial and firm competitiveness of any nation. Innovation is often … in understanding innovation in developing economies. This paper aims to study and present the current state of innovation … in the innovation process in the context of the existing government policy. India, being a developing nation, has its own …
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Micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises are a backbone of the Philippine economy. One factor that hinders the growth of these enterprises is their difficulty in accessing finance from banks and other financial institutions. The Credit Surety Fund (CSF) was established to help these...
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small and medium firms' innovation in Viet Nam over the period 2007-2015. Using data from the Viet Nam Small and Medium … demand better technology, thereby improving the innovation system and creating a favorable environment in which to transfer …
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The current study examines the impact of GVCs on the performance of SMEs in Uva and central provinces of Sri Lanka while recognizing potential local business sectors that can be linked with GVCs. Apart from that, key challenges and main success factors in relation to linking SMEs with GVCs are...
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India underwent a significant structural transformation through trade liberalization and other reforms (domestic) in the 1990s because of a balance-of-payments crisis. I use this episode to identify the causal effect of a drop in tariffs on wage inequality, measured through managerial and...
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