detailed regional facilitating and driving factors related, inter alia, to talent, innovation, skills, networks, accessibility …

. It examines the impacts of environmental compliance, and its combination with innovation, on TFP convergence of … environmental treatment - are only significant through their interaction with innovation. The β-convergence in firms' TFP is …

The identification of potential innovation efforts plays an important role in evaluating the innovation process. The … innovation efforts of firms in developing countries might be different to those of Western enterprises. This paper evaluates … innovation processes in developing countries, especially the relationship between innovation efforts and outcomes. Instead of …

Slack resources are usually identified as an endogenous motivation for firms' innovation. Still, it is crucial to … assess the importance of slack in supporting innovation, especially in different institutional contexts. Therefore, the paper … small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Viet Nam. The analysis reveals that slack resources promote innovation in different …

externalities in explaining variation in innovation rates across firms. More specifically, we combine micro-data and census data to … estimate the probability that a firm will introduce a goods, service or process innovation. We consider internal firm … agglomeration variables are only significant for a few specific sectors, and even then only for some types of innovation. …