This paper documents the relationship between appropriation instruments and the innovation activity in Tunisia. It focuses on the factors that determine the appropriation of innovation activities like the value of sales of the firms, networking, science–industry linkage, competitive pressure...

In spite of the considerable effort of the work focused on the identification of the conditions and factors favourable to innovation in developing countries, very few contributions concern the analysis of the obstacles impeding or slowing the innovation process and factors affecting their...

This article is dedicated to the analysis of the first innovation survey of the Tunisian firms. Starting from basic mechanisms of innovation processes and existing results on other developing countries, we test a set of assumptions on the characteristics of innovating firms in a developing...