defence firms will progressively become more efficient, less dependent on public procurement and innovation policy support … an increase in the industry’s export propensity and a less concentrated market. …

The paper carries out an empirical analysis of the factors explaining the export performance of firms in the defence … research on the three most important defence export products (weapon stations, ammunition, electronics). Our empirical results …

The desire to increase manufacturing productivity has been a commonly cited goal of the trade liberalization episodes … in productivity. However, this paper finds that the methodology used in the literature ignores inter …-industry productivity spillovers and suggests that this omission biases estimates of the impact of import tariff reduction on industry …

Models on innovation, for the most part, do not include a comprehensive and end-to-end view. Most innovation policy … interventions. This situation has led to the developing of new frameworks for the innovation system led by National Science and … Technology Policy Centres across the globe. These new models of innovation are variously referred to as the National Innovation …

potential determinants of innovation; and (ii) analysing the effects of governance and regulation on innovation in conjunction … Greenwich in September 2011 and will be published as an edited book titled Governance, Regulation and Innovation: Theory and … widely defined and innovation, taking into account the interactions between governance and market structure as well as …

Innovation has long been considered an important factor for creating and maintaining the competitiveness of nations and … firms. The relationship between innovation and exporting has been investigated for many countries. However, there is a … paucity of research in Vietnam with respect to this issue. In this paper we examine whether innovation performed by Vietnam …

The paper investigates the effects of industry-level competition on firm-level innovation and productivity. We propose … productivity. We test the model on a firm-level panel dataset based on the last three waves of the innovation survey for Norway … innovation process: the choice of a firm to engage in innovation, its R&D intensity, its innovation output and labour …

Abstract Both Mexico and China have started export orientation in some industries, through assembly operations, based … development of export oriented industries started, following a period of pursuing import substitution strategy , more or less, at … than Mexico in gradually increasing value added in export oriented industries by substituting domestic production for …