This paper empirically studies the roles of productivity and other factors such as globalization and financial constraints in shaping the innovation-related activities of Chinese firms between 2005 and 2007, in a context of quickly developing economy. Our empirical analysis based on firm-level...

We acquired firm-level data from 27 post-communist economies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia during 2002–08, and we estimated financial constraints’ longitudinal impacts on firms’ innovating activities. Overall, we found financial constraints to significantly impede firms’ innovation...