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Innovation in Nigerian SMEs: types and impact

Egbetokun, A; Siyanbola, W; Olamade, O; Adeniyi, A; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

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 … the type of innovation that SMEs pursue is not a critical consideration in their performance. While there was no …

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What Drives Innovation?: Inferences from an Industry-Wide Survey in Nigeria

Egbetokun, A; Siyanbola, W; Sanni, M; Olamade, O; Adeniyi, A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This chapter seeks to make some contributions to the literature on firm-level innovation in Africa by attempting to identify the significant factors that explain the capability of firms in Nigeria to innovate using the results of an industry-wide study. We focused on the product and process...

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Learning to Innovate in Nigeria's cable and wire manufacturing sub-sector: inferences from a firm-level case study

Egbetokun, A; Siyanbola, W; Adeniyi, A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Firm performance is known to be connected to firm-level innovation capability. Innovation capability, in turn, is an …

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The types and intensity of innovation in developing-country SMEs: evidences from a Nigerian sub-sectoral study

Egbetokun, A; Adeniyi, A; Siyanbola, W; Olamade, O - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Understanding the types of innovations that SMEs currently undertake, and their commitment to innovation, is especially useful for policy making in developing countries. This paper, therefore, addressed two main questions: What types of innovation occur in SMEs? How intense is innovation in...

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On the capability of SMEs to innovate: the cable and wire manufacturing sub-sector in Nigeria

Egbetokun, A; Adeniyi, A; Siyanbola, W - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

manufacturing firms in Nigeria. The important factors that accounted for innovation performance were firm-level leadership and use …

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