Innovation process represents the long wave of value creation and it is the main powerful driver of future economic … of Science, Technology and Innovation and discusses the factors militating against the translation of scientific R … importance of institutional framework and knowledge pool in the process of building indigenous innovation capability for national …

This paper seeks to explore the types of innovation that are predominant in SMEs in developing countries and to … investigate the impact of these innovations on different dimensions of firm performance based on an industry-wide innovation … survey carried out in Nigeria in 2007. Although innovation is important for superior firm performance, our result found that …

This chapter seeks to make some contributions to the literature on firm-level innovation in Africa by attempting to …-wide study. We focused on the product and process innovation activities of firms between 2003 and 2006 and found differences in … the factors that drive them at the firm level. Our results further show that interactions matter more than most innovation …

This study explored the factors that explain innovation capability in SMEs in developing countries. This is important … manufacturing firms in Nigeria. The important factors that accounted for innovation performance were firm-level leadership and use … improved innovation capability. …

Firm performance is known to be connected to firm-level innovation capability. Innovation capability, in turn, is an … discussed within the context of the firm’s stock of human capital. We found low technological innovation capability and high … capability for organisational and marketing innovation. Preparedness for technological learning is relatively poor with staff …

Understanding the types of innovations that SMEs currently undertake, and their commitment to innovation, is especially … innovation occur in SMEs? How intense is innovation in SMEs? We have used empirical information from a census carried out in the … data covered the 4-year period between 2003 and 2007. We found a high prevalence of organisational innovation and low …