Using a unique firm level data set on learning and product innovation in Tanzanian manufacturing and commercial farming … for product innovation. The results indicate that larger and foreign owned firms invest significantly more in human and … and specialised labour - necessary for product innovation in imperfect markets. …

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 …

agricultural research should be used for innovation. The paper suggests a number of novel entry points for projects promoting … contested visions of research and innovation within the programme and between the programme and its donors and other …

This paper focuses on the occurrence of high-growth firms in relation to human capital and innovation. High … likelihood of low-growth firms and exits, underscoring the risky nature of innovation. A probit analysis for high-growth firms …

between appropriability mechanisms, innovation and firm-level productivity. We enrich this model in several ways. First, we … consider different types of innovation spending and study the differences in estimates when innovation spending rather than RD … spending is used to predict innovation in the CDM model. Second, we assume that a firm simultaneously innovates and chooses …

This paper sets out to explore the nature of new organisational and institutional vehicles for managing innovation in …-the-radar innovation. For each of these classes of innovation management vehicles this review has mapped the diversity of emerging examples … these new and as yet poorly-understood modes of innovation that have the greatest potential to effect change, although …

within the context of technological innovation. We differentiate among a firm's direct ties, indirect ties and degree of …

governance view of collaboration, and test these on an extensive panel dataset of innovation-active Dutch firms during 1996 … value chain integration in innovation processes. Positive interrelation also exists in vertical alliances, as immediate past …

has changed the essential nature of innovation - driven by widespread access to the ability to replicate and improve … - remains the same. Hence a focus on endogenous innovation policy is as relevant today as it was 50 years ago. …