There is a common perception that low productivity or low growth is due to what can be called an quot;innovation … innovation countries. The usual reaction to this perceived problem is to call for increases in Ramp;D investment rates, usually … innovation shortfall above and beyond the ones that should be expected given the country's specialization and accumulation …

This paper proposes a quantitative model of firm dynamics with endogenous innovation to study growth acceleration …

Studies on innovation and international trade have traditionally focused on manufacturing because neither was seen as … growth. Using a recent firm-level innovation survey for Chile to compare the manufacturing and "tradable" services sector …

While innovation is a source of competitiveness, it may expose plants to survival risks. Using a rich set of plant … important role for the innovation-survival link: only innovators that retain diversified sources of revenues survive longer … role in the innovation-survival link. Engaging in risky innovation is not an irrational decision, since plants reap big …

The role of innovation in improving productivity might vary according to a country's relative position in technology … advancement. Frontier countries might benefit more from policies that promote firms' internal innovation (create), while follower … countries would gain more from policies favoring the adoption of existing technologies through innovation outsourcing (buy …

This paper describes and benchmarks innovation activities for a sample of countries in the South Asia region, as well … Asia region can be divided into two groups, in terms of the magnitude and composition of the innovation activities: leaders … (Bangladesh and India) and laggards (Nepal and Pakistan). Leaders present higher rates of innovation activities than laggards and …

as usage by firms, innovation, and productivity using firm-level data for a sample of six Sub-Saharan African countries … suggest that ICT use is an important and robust enabler of product, process, and organization innovation across all six … countries. However, the final impact on productivity depends on the degree of novelty of the innovation introduced by the firm …

Little is known about innovation in developing countries, partly because of the lack of comparable and reliable data …. Collecting data on firm-level innovation is challenging because of the subjective definition of what determines an innovation, a … problem that is exacerbated in developing countries where innovation is likely to be more incremental and less radical. This …