are distributed across technology classes, in such a way that we compute knowledge spillovers. Opportune econometric …

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 …

importance of institutional framework and knowledge pool in the process of building indigenous innovation capability for national …, knowledge generation, innovation, education and technological entrepreneurship. …Innovation process represents the long wave of value creation and it is the main powerful driver of future economic …