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Do exporting firms in the People's Republic of China innovate?

Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2012

-level export performance in Asia's super exporter - The People's Republic of China (PRC). While early studies suggested that … innovation was important, there has been little research on opening up the black box of technology at firm-level in the PRC. This … paper undertakes econometric analysis of innovation, learning, and exporting in automobiles and electronics firms in the PRC …

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Dynamics of innovation and internationalization among small and medium-sized enterprises in Viet Nam

Trinh, Long Q. - 2016

This paper examines the bidirectional causality between innovation and internationalization in the context of …, past internationalization has a positive effect on process innovation, but past process innovation does not have a … process innovation and the internationalization decision. Our results, however, do not show dynamic interdependence between …

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Informal micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises and digitalization : evidence from surveys in Indonesia

Shinozaki, Shigehiro - 2022

Most micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) operate informally. While informal sectors are thought to contribute less to national economic development, MSMEs are a driving force behind national economic growth. Thus, formalizing informal MSMEs is critical to boosting national...

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What matters for the GVC entry and exit of manufacturing SMEs in the Philippines?

Mendoza, Adrian R. - 2020

This study explores firm-level data from the Philippines to uncover new stylized facts about the participation of manufacturing small and medium enterprise (SMEs) in global value chains (GVCs). The empirical analysis shows that manufacturing SMEs are weakly connected to foreign markets,...

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Leveraging SME finance through value chains in Tajikistan

Mirzoev, Shuhrat; Sobirzoda, Ravshan - 2019

Tajikistan's outlook for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) remains challenging as it continues to recover from economic downturn. The SME sector is small but steadily growing in terms of value addition and share of total employment, although access to finance remains poor and financial...

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Leveraging SME finance through value chains in Kazakhstan

Kapparov, Kassymkhan - 2019

One of the major issues for SME development has been access to finance. This paper examines the current state of SME development and financing in Kazakhstan. It also examines the current state of the development of value chains and discusses barriers for agriculture value chain financing. The...

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Covid-19 impact on micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises under the lockdown : evidence from a rapid survey in the Philippines

Shinozaki, Shigehiro; Rao, Lakshman Nagraj - 2021

The novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, has brought significant change to people's lives and business activities nationally, regionally, and globally. The Philippines took swift action-including enhanced community quarantine (ECQ)-to contain the pandemic and launched an emergency subsidy...

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The Russian invasion of Ukraine and its impact on digitalized small firms in Central and West Asia : evidence from rapid surveys

Shinozaki, Shigehiro - 2023

The Russian invasion of Ukraine disrupted a V-shaped economic post-pandemic recovery in Central and West Asia. It affected global supply chains and slowed the region's growth momentum while adding inflationary pressures. Private businesses were adversely affected by the impact of the invasion...

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Foreign direct investment spillovers and pharmaceutical innovation : the role of intellectual property rights

Ho, Chun-Yu; Li, Xin; Zhou, Weimin - 2017

This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic innovation based on a data set covering … the pharmaceutical industries across 29 provinces in the People's Republic of China (PRC) over the period 1998-2007. We … show that there is a negative horizontal spillover effect of FDI on domestic innovation when the intellectual property …

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Credit market development and firm innovation : evidence from the People's Republic of China

Shang, Hua; Song, Quanyun; Wu, Yu - 2017

provinces in the People's Republic of China, we find that credit market development enhances firms' product innovation … innovative capacities of industrial firms in the People's Republic of China. Using a large dataset of industrial firms in 31 …

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