Government procurement is a vast market that offers companies ample opportunities for expansion, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Although much research has been conducted on the government as a high-value customer, little attention has been paid to the fact that...

This study examines the impact of judicial protection of intellectual property rights on firms' independent innovation. Using a staggered difference-in-differences model with panel data from Chinese manufacturing listed businesses (2014-2021) and the successive establishment of intellectual...

We investigate the degree to which the presence of inward foreign direct investments (FDI) influences product innovation by emerging market firms. We begin with FDI spillover effects at the national level, the common approach in the literature. We further examine spillover effects at the...