In this paper, results of the 2009 Survey of Innovation Activities are described and discussed. The term innovation … goods and services, production process, marketing, or organizational methods in a firm. Innovation data gathered in the … survey help better understand innovation and its relation to economic growth, and provide indicators for benchmarking …

competition arising from trade reforms lead to increases in innovation? This paper attempts to examine the link between trade … liberalization and innovation using firm panel data on the Philippine manufacturing industry. With the framework of Impulliti and … Licandro (2009, 2010) as guide, a two-stage approach is tested where trade and innovation are linked via competition. A …

empirical results provided an affirmative response to the question raised in this paper: "Does innovation mediate good firm …

for industrial upgrading and innovation. Both are present in the case study area of CALABARZON in the Philippines but the … suggestions were provided to strengthen the linkages that remain to be wanting but are important for stimulating innovation. …

ensuring the proper functioning of markets. It points out government's pivotal role in system innovation because of the … likelihood of its under-or-slow production by the private sector. MFIs have a clear advantage in process and product innovation …

government. However, industrial upgrading and innovation in the country was found to be weak. Expenditures on R&D are low and …

functioning of markets. It points out government's pivotal role in system innovation because of the likelihood of its under or …

National innovation system is anchored on the theory that industrial development requires technological capability in … characteristics of the Philippine innovation system and compares it with those of the United States, Japan and Germany. It concludes … that the Philippine innovation system must gear up to the requirements of a catch-up system to fit its institutions to its …