Using micro data from Brazilian manufacturing firms, this paper investigates the impact of a wide set of innovation … clients, human capital development, ICT usage, product innovation and learning by exporting, with an R&D effect only in the … long run. Though the intensity with which firms engage in these innovation activities is sector dependent, innovation …

This paper explores the self-organising principles of horizontally-integrated innovation networks. It isshown that such …, dynamic and highly non-linear processes. The paper argues thedevelopment of a self-organisation perspective of innovation … the micro-macro processes driving dynamic innovation systems.Section 1 of the paper identifies the four key principles of …

the importance of technological variables - such as R&D, education and training, innovation, foreign ownership, licensing …

Using a unique firm level data set on learning and product innovation in Tanzanian manufacturing and commercial farming … for product innovation. The results indicate that larger and foreign owned firms invest significantly more in human and … and specialised labour - necessary for product innovation in imperfect markets. …