. 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 …

Studies show that when exports go up, innovation goes up as well. But what is the mediating effect of domestic … institutions in the association between exports and innovation? If any, which institutions are more likely to improve exports and … innovation in developing countries, and how? To address this lacuna, this study employs estimations of industry fixed effects for …

link between innovation (as a channel linking productivity to exporting) and exporting. The analysis has been conducted on …

This paper evaluates the impact of Chinese import penetration on the innovation of Vietnamese manufacturing firms from …

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 …

This paper investigates the effect of innovation on employment growth at the firm level in South Africa. Innovation is …, the link between innovation and employment is more ambiguous. R&D targeted towards product innovation has been typically … demand for labour. This paper aims to isolate the impact of innovation on export performance to understand the direct and …

their own technologies with those of specific key industries. -- Innovation ; Proximity ; Diversity …

Analysing the relationship between firms' openness to external knowledge and their innovation performance is nothing … focus of this paper. Using unique micro-level innovation data, it is shown, as the existing literature suggests, that firms …. However, innovative firms that exploit external knowledge do not necessarily enjoy greater innovation benefits than those that …