Using micro data from Brazilian manufacturing firms, this paper investigates the impact of a wide set of innovation … clients, human capital development, ICT usage, product innovation and learning by exporting, with an R&D effect only in the … long run. Though the intensity with which firms engage in these innovation activities is sector dependent, innovation …

makers in developing economies to adopt a comprehensive view on innovative activities and place firm-centred innovation … capability accumulation at the centre of industrial innovation policies. …

in the accumulation of innovation capabilities, especially among firms from emerging economies, known as latecomers. By … increased intensity and quality achieved higher innovation capability levels than firms that used these learning mechanisms with … learning mechanisms were associated with the attainment of particular innovation capability levels. Therefore, if latecomer …