This paper analyzes the role of innovation activities in the export participation of Chinese high-tech firms during the … firm-level innovation efforts, measured by R&D and product innovation dummies, play only a minor role for domestic … exporters. Foreign-invested firms dominate the high-tech exports but do not rely on indigenous innovation activities. These …

for international firms engaged both in environmental and in dirty activities. Firms' innovation, measured, as the … the lack of integrated innovation adoption behind environmental productivity performance. In this work, we analyse the …

Innovation in the services sectors has been a rather neglected research area under the commonly held view that … manufacturing firms are the main drivers of innovation in developed economies. The rise of the service economy has redirected the … research agenda towards the potential of services firms to adopt innovation activity. Here we analyze the determinants of …

This paper aims to seek what type of innovation and to estimate the impact of social capital on the innovation in the … than half of respondents are innovative producers. Innovation of product and organizational are the important types of … innovation in the bamboo handicraft. Social capital, measured by an index of trust significantly influences the innovation index …

This chapter aims at analysing some characteristics of the innovation process, focusing on two factors that may … can have positive effects on the equality level of an economy, while having not always positive effect on innovation. …

survey applied to maritime and marine organizations in Portugal, Spain, Ireland and United Kingdom. Innovation, human capital …. The study found that the participation in innovation activities and the level of absorptive capacity are critical aspects …

The formidable economic growth of China in the past few decades led to outstanding improvements in virtually all …, this paper identifies the predictors of the trend of life satisfaction in China between 1990 and 2007. Our findings suggest …

-think these approaches as ways to stimulate innovation in China. … underlying inventions – i.e., their ability to be transformed into something useful and thus constitute innovation. And this is … compounded by various regulatory and institutional factors in China. It is also compounded by the fact that the government has …