industrial manufacturing and innovation. Standardization is regarded primarily as a technical issue, and hence receives only …-functioning standardization system and strategy can work as a catalyst for translating new ideas, inventions and discoveries into productivity …-enhancing innovation. Standards thus are the missing link in a growth strategy which seeks to create quality jobs in higher-value added …

We examine the determinants of product, process, and organizational innovation, and their impact on firm labor … productivity using data from a unique innovation survey of firms in Pakistan. We find significant heterogeneity in the impact of … different innovations on labor productivity: Organizational innovation has the largest effect followed by process innovation …

innovation of Mexican manufacturing firms in products, in processes, and for the world. Given that the quadratic positive effect …Using data from 6378 Mexican firms for the 2012–2013 period, this paper estimates the effect of competition with China … for the US market on the innovation efforts of the Mexican manufacturing sector. After controlling for the influence of …

Studies show that when exports go up, innovation goes up as well. But what is the mediating effect of domestic … institutions in the association between exports and innovation? If any, which institutions are more likely to improve exports and … innovation in developing countries, and how? To address this lacuna, this study employs estimations of industry fixed effects for …