innovation to observe the influence of firm size and of market concentration on innovative activities, and to interrogate the … differences in influences of innovation determinants in different size classes and competition statuses. Our analysis reveals that … employment increases the likelihood of R&D and product innovation, and its influence on R&D expenditures is positive but at less …

been known for many years about the way innovation takes place and finds that many of the shortcomings of RIU in Asia were … precisely because lessons from previous research on agricultural innovation were "not put into use" in the programme … research: (i) Promoting research into use requires enabling innovation. This goes beyond fostering collaboration, and includes …

innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies … have been conducted using data drawn from innovation surveys combined with data from a number of other sources. The issue … illustrates the value of these surveys in improving our understanding of innovation in firms and raises a number of questions for …

Using micro data from Brazilian manufacturing firms, this paper investigates the impact of a wide set of innovation … activities on firms' total factor productivity (TFP) and its subsequent effect on firm growth, measured by sales. Controlling for … size and age of the firms, productivity levels and productivity growth of firms over time are found to be key drivers of …

productivity among manufacturing firms in the context of a least developed country, Tanzania. In particular it seeks to evaluate … the importance of technological variables - such as R&D, education and training, innovation, foreign ownership, licensing … appear to affect productivity. Some of the institutional variables on the contrary are highly significant and robust to …

presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with … process innovation. The sources of employment growth during the period are split equally between the net contribution of … product innovation and the net contribution from sales growth of old products. However, the contribution of product innovation …

National framework conditions mediate the effect of technological capabilities of firms on their productivity. Although … institutional conditions influence total factor productivity of firms. Furthermore, we find that the effects of the national …, formal training of workers and access to technology through foreign ownership make more difference for productivity of firms …

different sets of economic and productivity indicators, activity indicators and profitability indicators in Sudan. One advantage … skills mismatch and most probably contribute to decline of labour productivity and industrial performance indicators. We … labour productivity, industrial performance and therefore, economic growth and development in Sudan. …