This paper seeks to explore the types of innovation that are predominant in SMEs in developing countries and to … investigate the impact of these innovations on different dimensions of firm performance based on an industry-wide innovation … survey carried out in Nigeria in 2007. Although innovation is important for superior firm performance, our result found that …

-wide study. We focused on the product and process innovation activities of firms between 2003 and 2006 and found differences in …This chapter seeks to make some contributions to the literature on firm-level innovation in Africa by attempting to … the factors that drive them at the firm level. Our results further show that interactions matter more than most innovation …

This study explored the factors that explain innovation capability in SMEs in developing countries. This is important … manufacturing firms in Nigeria. The important factors that accounted for innovation performance were firm-level leadership and use … improved innovation capability. …

Firm performance is known to be connected to firm-level innovation capability. Innovation capability, in turn, is an … discussed within the context of the firm’s stock of human capital. We found low technological innovation capability and high … capability for organisational and marketing innovation. Preparedness for technological learning is relatively poor with staff …

data covered the 4-year period between 2003 and 2007. We found a high prevalence of organisational innovation and low …Understanding the types of innovations that SMEs currently undertake, and their commitment to innovation, is especially … innovation occur in SMEs? How intense is innovation in SMEs? We have used empirical information from a census carried out in the …

Innovation process represents the long wave of value creation and it is the main powerful driver of future economic … of Science, Technology and Innovation and discusses the factors militating against the translation of scientific R … importance of institutional framework and knowledge pool in the process of building indigenous innovation capability for national …