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Does lack of innovation and absorptive capacity retard economic growth in Africa?
Onyeiwu, Steve - 2011
they have played significant roles in the region's slow and episodic economic growth. Results from cross …-country regressions covering 31 Sub-Saharan African countries suggest that growth in Africa is not simply a question of capital … growth of African economies does not depend so much on their ability to innovate, but rather on their capacity to absorb and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280171
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Does lack of innovation and absorptive capacity retard economic growth in Africa?
Onyeiwu, Steve - 2011
they have played significant roles in the region's slow and episodic economic growth. Results from cross …-country regressions covering 31 Sub-Saharan African countries suggest that growth in Africa is not simply a question of capital … growth of African economies does not depend so much on their ability to innovate, but rather on their capacity to absorb and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008908332
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Africa
Assenova, Valentina; Agarwal, Aparajita - 2023
Entrepreneurship and innovation are pivotal for Africa’s economic progress. However, the continent faces a dearth of investment, with the existing venture capital (VC) majorly channeled towards fintech, sidelining other sectors. Despite the growing VC interest, African entrepreneurs grapple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014359135
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Institutional Innovations in China : Can China Serve as an Alternative Development Model?
Tasneem, Naila - 2018
Africa. Not only has China achieved impressive growth rates, lifted almost half a billion people out of poverty but has also … growth and development. However due to China's silent rise as a major global economic power many countries particularly in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936343
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Employment protection and innovation intensity
Murphy, Gavin; Siedschlag, Iulia; McQuinn, John - 2012
We examine the impact of the strictness of employment protection legislation on innovation intensity. To this purpose, we use a panel of annual data from OECD countries over the period 1990-1999 and estimate difference-in-difference models to explain the variation of innovation intensity between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010392472
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Employment protection and innovation intensity
Murphy, Gavin; Siedschlag, Iulia; McQuinn, John - 2012
We examine the impact of the strictness of employment protection legislation on innovation intensity. To this purpose, we use a panel of annual data from OECD countries over the period 1990-1999 and estimate difference-in-difference models to explain the variation of innovation intensity between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009674753
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Back in business : industrial policy for emerging economies in the new globalization
Berglöf, Erik; Cable, Vince - 2018
We explore the potential roles of industrial policy in the transition from middle-income to high-income status, and the actual experience of industrial policy in emerging economies. Guided by the conceptual framework of the neo-Schumpeterian approach, we look at industrial policy in the context...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011802103
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Innovation Capabilities : The Knowledge Capital Behind the Survival and Growth of Firms
Baldwin, John R. - 2013
This paper summarizes the findings of a research program aimed at outlining the importance to the firm growth process …, longitudinal databases have provided a rich set of studies on entry, exit, mergers and other aspects of dynamics related to growth … and decline in firm populations. These studies have shown the pervasiveness of growth and decline in the firm population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095925
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Accumulation, Innovation and Catching-Up: An Extended Cumulative Growth Model
León-Ledesma, Miguel A. - 1999
This paper presents an extended model of cumulative growth in which the effects of innovation and catching-up are … considered. The effect of innovation adds another source of cumulative growth to that of the traditional models and allows for …. The model allows for analysing whether cumulative forces may lead to stable growth and whether this solution generates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010443328
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Accumulation, innovation and catching-up : an extended cumulative growth model
León-Ledesma, Miguel A. - 1999
This paper presents an extended model of cumulative growth in which the effects of innovation and catching-up are … considered. The effect of innovation adds another source of cumulative growth to that of the traditional models and allows for …. The model allows for analysing whether cumulative forces may lead to stable growth and whether this solution generates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532013