in developing countries. Building on this analysis, the paper outlines a vision of innovation for development that could … lead to a truly new research programme for innovation studies and the development of successful innovation …

Using a unique firm level data set on learning and product innovation in Tanzanian manufacturing and commercial farming …, this paper sheds light on the various sources of firm learning, investment and collaboration and their relative importance … for product innovation. The results indicate that larger and foreign owned firms invest significantly more in human and …

In this paper we suggest that technological acquisition and innovation by firms involve new investment, and thus … impact of the European integration process on sectoral innovation and industrial restructuring processes. The paper suggests … investment decisions and in the long run on the profitability of these projects. In consequence, as the structure and behaviour …

the uncertainties mentioned above. In order to model this type of investment behaviour, we use an extended version of the … van Zon and Fuss (2005) clay-clay-vintage-portfolio model that starts from the notion that investment in electricity …, in combination with the expectation of a future switch towards another technology, may actually reduce current investment …

knowledge investment generates the public resources for the development of social welfare models capable of addressing rapid …

organizational rigidities also affect R&D investment. A semiparametric estimator of sample selection is employed to control for …

financial constraints. Our results are consistent with the general literature on R&D investment behaviour, yet raise some …

This paper investigates micro and macro determinants of firms' investment behaviour using firm data from 101 developing … relative to sales revenue. Using a multilevel probit model we study what factors trigger investment and using a multilevel … Heckman selection model we study what factors influence a firm's investment to sales ratio. Although we find that both micro …

Studies of the relationship between FDI and domestic investment levels reach contradictory findings. We revisit this … conclude that FDI inflows contribute positively to domestic investment levels. We also find weak evidence that `good governance …', proxied with using the Worldwide Governance Indicators (and two rent seeking indicators we built), encourages investment …

This paper explores the impact of MNEs on innovation systems and the policy options available for peripheral economies …