Innovation involves implementing new or significantly improved goods and services, production processes, marketing, or … organizational methods for adding value. The measurement of innovation provides a mechanism for benchmarking national performance …, and for examining innovation and its relation to economic growth. Further, examining determinants and bottlenecks to …

that will require more innovation for firms to remain competitive across the global market. The PIDS Survey on Innovation …% of Philippines establishments were innovation-active. Strikingly, the BPO sector spends the most for innovation … activities despite it being the least innovation-active among the various sectors at a rate of just 30%. Intellectual property …

empirical results provided an affirmative response to the question raised in this paper: "Does innovation mediate good firm …