Since 1997 the Hong Kong (HK) government has markedly changed its role from being a mere institution provider to being an active innovation promoter. As such, it has actively implemented innovation policies that focus especially on creating new funding opportunities and establishing several R&D...

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...

In this paper, we investigate whether CEO characteristics (owner-manager status, age and gender) influence firm innovative performance and test empirically if the effect differs for market and transition economies. We use cross-sectional data of manufacturing firms in six EU countries and in...

Since 1997 the Hong Kong (HK) government has markedly changed its role from being a mere institution provider to being an active innovation promoter. As such, it has actively implemented innovation policies that focus especially on creating new funding opportunities and establishing several R&D...

The Chinese firms face enormous survival risk in economic transition, with an average life expectancy of less than 4 years. We employ propensity score matching and Cox model to overcome the sample bias and right censoring, investigate the inhibitory effect of innovation to firm survival risk...

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...

Innovative business models in B-to-B settings allow suppliers to renew their business and to tighten the customer/supplier relationship while customers may benefit from more innovative and customized solutions. Astonishingly, the pace of adoption of these new business models is rather low. By...

When firms make decisions about which product to manufacture at a more disaggregated level than observed in the data, measured firm productivity will reflect both true differences in productivity and non-random decisions about which products to manufacture. This paper examines a model of...

This paper investigates whether technological innovation and exports affect the size and productivity of manufacturing firms in Brazil. In order to do so, we employ a new dataset and try to control for self-selection, a problem that is particularly important for the issue under examination....

This paper analyses the effectiveness of knowledge transfer between research and development (R&D) and intra-firm production units. Specifically, two distinct network structures are compared: the lead factory concept and traditional networks of R&D and production. Based on an analytical...