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This paper uses firm-level survey data of Kenyan manufacturing industry to examine the significance of FDI and firm-level capabilities in human capital development. It undertakes a detailed descriptive comparison of human capital and other firm-level capabilities generated by both foreign and...
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This paper examines the links between ownership, innovation and exporting in electronics firms in three late … trade and innovation and learning. Technology-based approaches to trade offer a plausible explanation for firm …-level exporting behavior. The econometric results (using probit) confirm the importance of foreign ownership and innovation in …
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to present what "innovation response capacity" entails, especially for natural resourcebased industries in a developing … country context. It will also provide an analytical framework that draws elements from agricultural innovation capacity and … the innovation systems framework. This is provided through case study research conducted in Kenya by exploring two …
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The recognition that innovation occurs in networks of heterogeneous actors and requires broad systemic support beyond … include fostering integration and interaction among the diverse actors engaged in innovation networks and working on … technological, organisational and institutional innovation. Further, the study identified various organisational arrangements of …
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Knowledge brokering has been explored in the innovation literature to understand how different innovation tasks are …
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In this paper we analyse the role of sectoral innovation systems in the emergence and catch-up of aerospace industries … in latecomer economies. We argue that the aerospace sector is characterized by a process of interrupted innovation …. Competitive pressures and the cyclical nature of the industry not only require shifts in the direction of innovation and changes …
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The paper makes an attempt to examine systematically the capabilities for software production in a latecomer context and to propose an approach for analysing the technological capabilities (TC) in a latecomer software industry. Taking the analysis one step further than identifying capabilities,...
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Software development activities have been identified as a 'window of opportunity' for latecomer companies. Notwithstanding the growth of software development activities in the latecomers, there are single exceptional cases of companies that have successfully launched their own products in global...
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