This study investigates the impact of internal and external research and development (R&D) on the innovation … performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in India and Pakistan. Micro-level data was obtained for 3,492 Indian and … stronger for Indian SMEs. The negative relationship between firm size and innovation output implies that SMEs in both countries …

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of internal and external R&D on SMEs innovation performance … SMEs. In comparison, only external R&D showed positive association to product and process innovation for Pakistani SMEs … research study for the first time has examined the Indian and Pakistani SMEs innovation activities. The implication of this …

productivity using data from a unique innovation survey of firms in Pakistan. We find significant heterogeneity in the impact of …We examine the determinants of product, process, and organizational innovation, and their impact on firm labor … different innovations on labor productivity: Organizational innovation has the largest effect followed by process innovation …

understanding of the measures, determinants, and impacts of new processes remains limited. Drawing on unique data from Pakistan, we … analyzed five different measures of process innovation output: cost reductions, defect rate reductions, reductions in … of process innovation and that smaller firms are more likely to introduce new processes and are better able to transform …