This paper analyzes the relationship between R&D expenditures, innovation and productivity growth, taking into account …

CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees’ ideas enhances small firms’ innovation performance. A Heckman selection model … innovation performance. However, contributions depend heavily on the individuals’ area of expertise and on whether product or … process innovation is desired. Our findings enrich the current view on the entrepreneurial team, but also warn against the …

Despite several studies exploring innovation activities in the Philippines, no clear answer has been provided to the … question of whether having foreign linkages can induce knowledge transfer and innovation. This study probes deeper into the … role of foreign linkages to innovation activities of manufacturing firms in the CALABARZON region. Utilizing a probit …

process innovation on productivity in the Chilean manufacturing industry during the past decade. In general, the evidence … suggests there is not a contemporaneous effect of product innovation on productivity, but there is a positive effect of process … innovation. This notsignificant effect of product innovation contrasts with evidence of studies for other countries. However, the …

This paper examines empirically the relationship between innovation and market structure within a simultaneous … concentration. In contrast, competition enforces innovation, i.e. sales concentration has a negative impact on R&D. …

. It examines the impacts of environmental compliance, and its combination with innovation, on TFP convergence of … environmental treatment - are only significant through their interaction with innovation. The β-convergence in firms' TFP is …