. It examines the impacts of environmental compliance, and its combination with innovation, on TFP convergence of … environmental treatment - are only significant through their interaction with innovation. The β-convergence in firms' TFP is …

Studies show that when exports go up, innovation goes up as well. But what is the mediating effect of domestic … institutions in the association between exports and innovation? If any, which institutions are more likely to improve exports and … innovation in developing countries, and how? To address this lacuna, this study employs estimations of industry fixed effects for …

link between innovation (as a channel linking productivity to exporting) and exporting. The analysis has been conducted on …

This paper evaluates the impact of Chinese import penetration on the innovation of Vietnamese manufacturing firms from …

Slack resources are usually identified as an endogenous motivation for firms' innovation. Still, it is crucial to … assess the importance of slack in supporting innovation, especially in different institutional contexts. Therefore, the paper … small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Viet Nam. The analysis reveals that slack resources promote innovation in different …

This paper investigates the effect of innovation on employment growth at the firm level in South Africa. Innovation is …, the link between innovation and employment is more ambiguous. R&D targeted towards product innovation has been typically … demand for labour. This paper aims to isolate the impact of innovation on export performance to understand the direct and …

The identification of potential innovation efforts plays an important role in evaluating the innovation process. The … innovation efforts of firms in developing countries might be different to those of Western enterprises. This paper evaluates … innovation processes in developing countries, especially the relationship between innovation efforts and outcomes. Instead of …

test the hypothesis that, controlling for technological innovation (product and process) and other variables related to … productivity premium. We further investigate the relationship between technological innovation and standard adoption. We find that … certification on productivity is particularly strong for firms with technological innovation. …

, it probes the relationship between innovation and growth of SMEs by (i) estimating a correlation between innovation sales … and sales growth, (ii) calculating innovation sales for high, medium, and low growth innovative SMEs and doing a one …-way ANOVA, and (iii) ascertaining the influence of innovation sales, along with investment growth and employment growth on gross …