Corruption and innovation: a grease or sand relationship?

This paper provides a firm-level empirical analysis on the ways in which corruption affects innovative activity. Particularly with respect to the African continent that is striving to reconcile with instability and poverty, this issue seems to be of utmost importance. Using a newly available dataset on African firms, it is shown that corruption has a negative effect on product innovation and organisational innovation. Corruption does not affect process innovation while it facilitates marketing innovation.

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Year of publication:	2008
Authors:	Mahagaonkar, Prashanth
Publisher:	Jena : Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics
Subject:	Korruption \| Innovation \| Organisatorischer Wandel \| Afrika \| Corruption \| Developing Economies \| Product Innovation \| Process Innovation \| Organisational Innovation \| marketing Innovation \| Taxation

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Series:	Jena Economic Research Papers ; 2008,017
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	560547560 [GVK] hdl:10419/25713 [Handle]
Classification:	D73 - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption ; O14 - Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology ; O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives ; H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government ; H25 - Business Taxes and Subsidies
Source:	EconStor

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