Innovation Development
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How can we foster more socially responsible pro-peace innovations that also have deeper impact? In arguing that incorporating contextual, area-specific and conflict-sensitive guidance enhances the quality and depth of innovation, this... more
Using World Bank’s Ethiopian Enterprise Survey round of 2011 and 2015 data from Ethiopian manufacturing and service firms, this paper identifies the effect of financial services on the innovation strategies of firms. We find a strong... more
This paper aims to broaden the horizon as well as to shed further light on the studies of interaction between firms and universities in a global context. Its starting point is thus a review of two different strands of the literature on... more
This paper explores how the conceptual elements of inclusive innovation theory can enhance similar approaches developed in the European context. In post-productivist, sustainable agriculture, bottom-up networks provide alternative sites... more
The subject-related literature provided information about the skills, education, and formal competencies required to join teams working on the innovation process. According to findings presented in this article, the previous studies have... more
The strong growth and export performance in Africa for the last decade were largely due to higher international commodity prices and did not translate into the broad-based economic and social development needed to reduce poverty and... more
The main aim of this study is to empirically examine the role of regional institutional quality, and compare the relative importance of three different institutional arrangements, namely regulatory quality, rule of law, and corruption, on... more
ABSTRACT This paper presents an analysis of the determinants of innovation activities, and its effect on output and productivity across manufacturing and services firms in Mexico. We build on the theoretical framework of synthesis... more
ABSTRACT The feasibility of the concept of a national innovation system (NIS) in the globalizing world had already been questioned in its early days and recently long-time advocates of the NIS approach have also raised their doubts. Along... more
Technological innovation has been one of the fastest growing areas of economics scholarship and one where history and philosophy have played important roles. Since the reconstruction of Joseph Schumpeter’s view of innovation as a driver... more