Investigating the nature, drivers and sources of innovation in Africa, this book examines the channels for effective … diffusion of innovation in and to Africa under institutional, resource and affordability constraints. Fu draws on almost a … decade of research on innovation in Africa to explore these issues and unpack the process, combining a rigorous statistical …

Public service innovation, defined as the adoption of new technology and methods of service delivery, is at the heart … of public management research. Scholars have long studied public and private sector innovation as distinctive phenomena …, arguing that private sector innovation aims to increase firms' competitive advantage, while public sector innovation purports …

produce all the components of modern life, and at competitive prices. Innovation is central to meeting the diverse challenges … is as environmentally responsible. This book provides the first in-depth global analysis of the innovation ecosystem in …

financial history, Janeway narrates the dynamics of the innovation economy from the standpoint of a seasoned practitioner of … and updated edition, Janeway explains how state investment in national goals enables the innovation process and why …, especially in the United States, opens the door for China to seize leadership of the innovation economy from America …

, scholars, practitioners, and anyone interested in economic development and innovation. …

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 … them into higher output. All five process innovation outputs are associated with higher labor productivity and higher sales …

Aghion, Van Reenen and Zingales (2013) find that institutional ownership causes an increase in innovation as measured … ownership and innovation is robust in 22% of robustness checks. On average, 2nd stage z-scores were just 42.7% of the original …

Joining a technical standards alliance is becoming increasingly crucial for latecomer enterprises' innovation catch … innovation on technical standards alliances while highlighting the importance of alliance routines. A structural equation model … industries. Several novel findings are reported. First, latecomers' two types of innovation catch-up and the three dimensions of …