This article examines business practices focused on knowledge and innovation and the relationship of these business … knowledge and innovation-related business practices. Our analysis reveals that firms in each country can be categorised based on … their focus on knowledge and innovation as: (1) high focus; (2) moderate focus; or (3) low focus. Results indicate that …

Growth launched its “Southern Innovation Initiative” noting that “The South’s competitiveness relies on establishing a … culture of innovation – the ability to continuously invent and bring high value products and processes to the global … marketplace. Technology is the primary tool for innovation.” Thus, the fundamental question for the 2006 policy research project …

account firm heterogeneity. We find support for the prediction that competition has a negative effect on innovation … important channels for domestic firm innovation. We do not find support for the inverted U effect of competition on innovation … more likely to display the inverted U relationship between competition and innovation. …

relationship between competition and innovation, Aghion, Dewatripont and Rey (1999) showed that this could be reversed if agency …Transition has entailed the introduction of policies to stimulate product market competition, to establish effective … considerations were introduced. In their model competition acts as an incentive mechanism to reduce managerial slack, which produces …

This paper describes how firms’ propensity to carry out component (or architectural) innovation is influenced by the … technologies (Takeishi 2002). Importantly, this study also shows how architectural innovation prevails in the early phase of … technological changes, while component innovation dominates the later stages. Furthermore, unlike what could be anticipated, total …

innovation, product improvement and employee improvement. Moreover, our empirical research illustrates the importance of the …