National framework conditions mediate the effect of technological capabilities of firms on their productivity. Although this has been recognized in the literature for a long time, a quantitative test that explicitly considers this hypothesis has been lacking. Using a World Bank datasets of about...

Using World Bank ICS data from Brazilian manufacturing firms, this paper identifiesinnovation strategies of firms - in particular internal technology creation (make) and externaltechnology acquisition (buy)- and their effect on successful process and product innovations.It also explores the...