"Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across … and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have … restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation to consideration of the role of firm characteristics. The authors …

This note provides a medium-term agenda for supporting Mexico's competitiveness by fostering greater innovation … Mexico's innovation policy agenda. While the firm is at the center of innovation, empirical evidence shows that public policy … can generate an external environment more conducive to innovation. The past decade has brought several policy changes and …

small firms. Measures to boost the productivity of micro and small firms in general will both help overall economic growth …

, have a bearing on the country's growth agenda. The results have a bearing on the key issue of labor productivity and its …-Saharan Africa (SSA) and also to firms in China and India, but also relatively less productive. Labor productivity in Kenya had not …

low productivity, low growth, and low quality of jobs. This study presents fresh qualitative and quantitative analyses to … productivity of micro and small firms in general will help overall economic growth, employment, and formalization. …

capability) by upgrading their technology, improving the quality of their product or service, or acquiring certification. They … find that competition has a negative effect on innovation, especially for firms further from the efficiency frontier, and … we do not find support for an inverted U effect of competition on innovation. The authors show that the supply chain of …

analysis of the role of exports, innovation, productivity, and competition on firm performance is presented in section three … substantially over the past decade. Lack of diversification cannot be pinned down to a single cause. Competition and innovation are … of less efficient firms, thereby contributing to increased productivity and export propensity. The government's current …

world population) who generate around 0.25 percent of the world's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). While the region has …