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 …

Insights from industrial organization, Schumpeterian innovation, and economic development theories are used to try to …

-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 …

in the integrated circuits industry in Taiwan and China. The paper shows that IC manufacturing began with multinationals … relocating export-oriented assembly operations in the 1960s in Taiwan and 1980s in China but serious technological catch up took …

source for industrial innovation in China. In-house technological efforts are critical for developing original innovations as … foreign countries nor those from the domestic technology market are playing significant roles in China’s industrial innovation …&D in China’s industrial innovation …

This paper investigates whether and how China's adoption of Soviet-aided industrialization programs in the 1950s has … affected its long-run innovation. Focusing on 156 major industrial projects aided by the Soviet Union, combined with an … programs for long-run innovation due to firms adopting incentive-incompatible management technology. …