; production ; innovation ; China ; company survey … governance structures) for companies’ production as well as innovation activities. The results confirm the importance of personal … relationships between production and innovation activities. -- Personal relationships ; formal and informal institutions …

This paper addresses the relationships between innovation, research and development (R&D) and productivity in domestic … ICT firms in Costa Rica. Factors considered were the types of innovation outputs produced by domestic ICT firms, the … relative importance of innovation inputs, the impacts of innovation on firm productivity, the protection of innovations, and …

-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 …

This paper studies the relationship between trade credit and innovation. While trade credit is well researched in the … finance literature, its link to innovation has been neglected in prior research. We argue that innovative small and medium … partners may have incentives to offer trade credit especially to innovative SMEs. The relationship between innovation and trade …

thanks to their ability in undertaking technological innovation, few empirical studies have explicitly addressed this issue …. This article examines the innovation-employment nexus for start-ups using the Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS), a unique … regressions indicate an overall positive but heterogeneous effect of innovation activities on the conditional employment growth …