Innovation process represents the long wave of value creation and it is the main powerful driver of future economic … of Science, Technology and Innovation and discusses the factors militating against the translation of scientific R … importance of institutional framework and knowledge pool in the process of building indigenous innovation capability for national …

opportunity cost of cash holdings leads to a decrease in innovation and economic growth, which in turn decreases labor …

This paper seeks to explore the types of innovation that are predominant in SMEs in developing countries and to … investigate the impact of these innovations on different dimensions of firm performance based on an industry-wide innovation … survey carried out in Nigeria in 2007. Although innovation is important for superior firm performance, our result found that …

This chapter seeks to make some contributions to the literature on firm-level innovation in Africa by attempting to …-wide study. We focused on the product and process innovation activities of firms between 2003 and 2006 and found differences in … the factors that drive them at the firm level. Our results further show that interactions matter more than most innovation …

This study explored the factors that explain innovation capability in SMEs in developing countries. This is important … manufacturing firms in Nigeria. The important factors that accounted for innovation performance were firm-level leadership and use … improved innovation capability. …

IPR protection and innovation, but the evidence is stronger for developed countries than for developing countries. Thirdly …, the optimal level of IPR protection should tradeoff the social benefits of enhanced innovation against the social costs of …

This study develops a Schumpeterian growth model to analyze the effects of different patent instruments on innovation …. We first analyze patent breadth that captures the traditional positive effect of patent rights on innovation. Then, we … assigned to incumbents reduces entrants' incentives for innovation. This aspect of blocking patents captures the recently …