effectiveness and efficiency of the factors of competitiveness. The role of innovations and knowledge creating activities in … and efficiency of the factors of competitiveness. Another objective of this paper is to determine the factors of … competitiveness of the nations. The study has also assessed the impacts of improvement in political and corporate governances of the …

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 … difference found in the focus of SMEs on either of product or process innovations, evidence showed that SMEs would focus more on …

competitiveness of small and medium enterprises. …

competitiveness of the Italian industrial districts, if they represent a model of success or rather a weak system of production. Thus … also by the social and cultural environment. The second argument regards the competitiveness of this Italian industrial … shown good performances and it represents a paradigm of lasting competitiveness, even if it is restrained by many external …

The issue of institutional support for innovations in Latin American countries has been examined in this paper. We use … influence on human capital variable on innovations growth it is straightforward. However, the sign on the institutions variable … may as well turn not to be supportive of innovations. …

The paper aims at explaining the importance of innovations in modern enterprises. Activities leading to creation of … innovative solutions, types of innovations and their meaning for enterprise’s strategic planning have been presented. The meaning … individual innovations for maintaining an optimal cost / income balance, hence the economic rationality of innovative …

This paper proposes a reduced form model of dynamic duopoly in the context of heterogeneous innovations framework. Two … agents invest into product and process innovations simultaneously. Every newly introduced product has its own dimension of … process-improving innovations and there is a continuum of possible new products. In the area of process innovations the …