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Innovation Patterns and Their Effects on Firm-Level Productivity in South Asia
Sri Lankan Journal of Human Resource Management
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Innovation Patterns and Their Effects on Firm-Level Productivity in South Asia
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Cirera, Xavier
Cusolito, Ana P. |
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| Description |
This paper describes and benchmarks innovation activities for a sample of countries in the South Asia region, as well as the impact of these activities on firm-level productivity. The evidence gathered suggests that countries in the South Asia region can be divided into two groups, both in terms of the magnitude and composition of the innovation activities: leaders (Bangladesh and India) and laggards (Nepal and Pakistan). Leaders present higher rates of innovation activities than laggards and focus more on process innovation than in product innovation. Also, differences across-firms within all countries tend to present similar patterns when considering both leaders and laggards; with the acquisition of knowledge capital (e.g., R&D, investments in equipment, training) highly concentrated in few firms, and mature, exporter, and foreign-owned firms as the most innovative of the region. The evidence also suggests a positive impact of innovation on productivity, primarily via incremental innovation, especially in India.
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SCHOLINK INC.
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2019-06-28
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
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application/pdf
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http://www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/jepf/article/view/2134
10.22158/jepf.v5n3p261 |
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Journal of Economics and Public Finance; Vol 5, No 3 (2019); p261
2377-1046 2377-1038 |
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eng
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http://www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/jepf/article/view/2134/2260
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| Rights |
Copyright (c) 2019 Xavier Cirera, Ana P. Cusolito
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
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