This paper shows how trade liberalization can have an asymmetric effect on heterogeneous firms. It develops a neo-Schumpeterian growth model predicting that the impact of liberalization on economic performance is positive “on average”, but more advanced firms benefit more. These predictions...

Purpose - This study investigates how ICT adoption enhances the innovativeness of informal firms in West Africa, using the cases of Ghana and Nigeria. Design/methods/approach - The study used the World Bank Enterprise Survey data 2014 for Ghana and Nigeria with binary logistic regression...

Rapid price decreases for ICT-products in the 1990s have been largely attributed to the introduction of hedonic price indexes. Would hedonic price indexing also have large effects on measured price and productivity during earlier technological breakthroughs? This paper investigates the impact of...

The main objectives of this paper is (i) to determine factors that support engagement in innovative activities by Rwandese manufacturing firms; (ii) to assess effects of innovation decision on innovation performance of Rwandese manufacturing firms; and (iii) to evaluate impacts of innovation...

The paper investigated the drivers of innovation in the manufacturing, industry and services sectors of 20 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and found that (i) secondary education matters for value-added creation or innovation but the manufacturing and industry sectors need more and more...

Purpose - This study investigates how ICT adoption enhances the innovativeness of informal firms in West Africa, using the cases of Ghana and Nigeria. Design/methods/approach - The study used the World Bank Enterprise Survey data 2014 for Ghana and Nigeria with binary logistic regression...

The immediate need for servitization and digital technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing and predictive analysis must be addressed in manufacturing industries. This research aims to analyze the impact of manufacturing services transformation management from traditional...

Abstract: The main objective of this paper is to establish a formal relationship between innovation and performance using Colombian firm-level data. We find that, as predicted by the literature, the production of goods and services new to the firm and to the domestic market enhances firms´...

The UN Sustainable Development Goals are firmly entrenched in the strategic national agenda of all countries in the world, but the implementation of the SDGs is possible not only at the global or national levels but also at the regional one within the integration economic unions. The UN SDGs for...

Rapid price decreases for ICT-products in the 1990s have been largely attributed to the introduction of hedonic price indexes. Would hedonic price indexing also have large effects on measured price and productivity during earlier technological breakthroughs? This paper investigates the impact of...