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Financial constraints and innovation: Why poor countries don't catchup

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - 2010

and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements. …

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Financial development and innovation in China: Evidence from the provincial data

Hanley, Aoife; Liu, Wan-Hsin; Vaona, Andrea - 2011

This paper investigates the role of regional financial development, in addition to FDI, for regional innovation in … regional innovation (patenting) performance. This positive effect is found to be higher for minor innovations such as external … would otherwise impede regional innovation performance. …

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Technological innovation, entrepreneurship and development

Audretsch, David B.; Sanders, Mark - 2009

Industrialization has long been seen as the answer to underdevelopment and poverty. First this led countries to follow protectionist import substitution policies but as these failed developing countries have opened up to trade and FDI and tried to follow strategies of export driven...

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Entrepreneurship, stages of development, and industrialization

Ács, Zoltan J.; Naudé, Wim - 2011

Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...

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Entrepreneurship in advanced and developing countries: A microeconomic perspective

Vivarelli, Marco - 2012

The purpose of this paper is to provide a contribution to the identification of the role of entrepreneurship in economic growth by mapping out: 1) alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, distinguishing 'creative destruction' from simple 'turbulence'; 2) the different microeconomic...

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Cooperation behaviour and innovation performance in the Nigerian manufacturing industry

Egbetokun, Abiodun A. - 2012

Analysing the relationship between firms' openness to external knowledge and their innovation performance is nothing … focus of this paper. Using unique micro-level innovation data, it is shown, as the existing literature suggests, that firms …. However, innovative firms that exploit external knowledge do not necessarily enjoy greater innovation benefits than those that …

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Absorptive capacity and innovation: When is it better to cooperate?

Egbetokun, Abiodun A.; Savin, Ivan - 2012

Cooperation can benefit and hurt firms at the same time. An important question then is: when is it better to cooperate. And how can an appropriate partner be selected? In this paper we present a model of inter-firm cooperation driven by cognitive distance, appropriability conditions and external...

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Does Partner Type Matter in R&D Collaboration for Environmental Innovation?

Pippel, Gunnar - 2013

firm's environmental innovation performance. However, the literature suggests that R&D collaboration is not always … beneficial. Therefore, a more elaborated analysis of the effects of R&D collaborations on a firm's environmental innovation … a firm's environmental innovation performance. In addition, this paper addresses the question of whether the diversity …

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Are the Chinese in Africa More Innovative than the Africans? Comparing Chinese and Nigerian Entrepreneurial Migrants' Cultures of Innovation

Kohnert, Dirk - 2010

The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in West Africa has been met with growing resistance from established African entrepreneurs. Whether the former have a competitive edge over the latter because of distinctive sociocultural traits or whether the Chinese's supposed...

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Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce? Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012

This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...

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