find that competition has a negative effect on innovation, especially for firms further from the efficiency frontier, and … we do not find support for an inverted U effect of competition on innovation. The authors show that the supply chain of … multinational enterprises and international trade are important channels for domestic firms'innovation. They detect no evidence that …

, few papers examine the impact of the same variables for firms innovation in Latin America. This paper investigates the … link between firm innovation and its absorption capacity as proxied by the presence of a R&D department, the firm's human … manufacturing firms using data from innovation surveys. A probit regression model is applied to identify the determinants of …

It is so widely recognized that innovation is a key driver of economic growth that it is cliché to say so. This article … studies product innovation by firms with data from 68 countries, covering more than 25,000 firms in eight manufacturing … sectors. The author assesses the predictions of inter-disciplinary research on innovation by firms. The econometric evidence …

. The paper confirms the insight of the innovation literature, that competition induces firms to specialize and upgrade the …, thereby directing technical change toward diversification. The predictions are tested with data on Italian firms'innovation …

moves away from the conventional focus on the obstacles (such as the lack of access to finance) that hinder firms'innovation … ability. The World Bank's Enterprise Survey is used first to estimate the return to firms'innovation across many developing … countries, in terms of sales and sales per worker. Then the return to innovation is compared across countries with different …

The authors investigate the determinants of firm innovation in over 19,000 firms across 47 developing economies. They … define the innovation process broadly, to include not only core innovation such as the introduction of new products and new … innovation, with those private firms whose controlling shareholder is a financial institution being the least innovative. While …