productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is …

strategies of protectionist import substitution industrialization and the outward strategy of export-oriented industrialization …. The study confirms that political institutions negatively impacted industry for several decades. The results support … focusing on institutions to successfully implement industry policies for inducing the industrialization process in the country …

automotive parts industry, is negatively related with propensity to patent innovation. Also, unlike expectations, the InnoBiz … located at Gwangju region in Korea. Our empirical results show that a firm's industry characteristics, such as machinery and … industry to boost regional economic development. Given the lack of strong policy effects, a new industry policy should be …

. -- Knowledge capital ; productivity ; innovation ; manufacturing ; services ; knowledge intensity ; Community Innovation Survey …The objective of this study is to investigate the sensitivity of the estimated relationship between innovation and firm … different classifications of innovation. The analyses are performed in both level and growth rate dimensions. The overall …

The availability of new internationally-harmonized innovation survey data collected from OECD countries has created … some interesting opportunities for studying the following two key areas: (1) the determinants of innovation behavior at … firm level, and (2) innovation as an important factor contributing to the economic growth. This paper looks at the …

This paper investigates whether failure in innovation at the firm level can account for cross-country heterogeneity in … manufacturing productivity growth. There is no strong evidence in the literature on the existence of such link. Our work, however …, differs in a number of ways from much of the previous cross-country comparisons on the relationship between innovation and …

The objective of this study is to investigate the sensitivity of the estimated relationship between innovation and firm … different classifications of innovation. The analyses are performed in both level and growth rate dimensions. The overall …

-level Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data set to consider the economy in the period preceding the collapse of its financial system … firms can be classified as non-efficient in their production process. The production scale of many manufacturing firms is …