This paper analyses the main institutional mechanisms that foster the emergence andperformance of firms in knowledge-intensive sectors in developing countries. We use theempirical data collected in 2005 and 2006 in the South African computer hardware andsoftware sectors and the Malaysian...

In the present paper, various groups of innovating German SMEs are empirically identified according to their use (or non-use) of in-house R&D, their reliance on external sources of knowledge, and the degree of internal interactive learning that they employ.In order to account for non-R&D...