Entrepreneurship, digitalisation and productivity: Evidence from sub-Saharan African region
Government Support, Venture Capital, and Regional Innovation: The Role of Firms’ R&D Human Capital
African Governance in the Digital Age
Innovation Outputs and Superior Performance: Evidence from Spanish Companies
Foreign Direct Investment and Energy Demands: What Drives Economic Growth in Emerging Economies?
Exploiting a non-mainstream financial scheme to innovate: SMEs in the developing world
External knowledge and eco-innovation: evidence from small and medium-sized enterprises
Assessing the foreign direct investment-load capacity factor relationship in Spain: can FDI contribute to environmental quality?
Dealing with adversity: innovation among small and medium-sized enterprises in developing economies
Small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries, particularly in the Sub-Saharan African region, find it hard to innovate due to severe resource constraints and high institutional voids. Given this, the paper examines three international strategic responses that small and medium-sized enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa adopt to implement innovations in the face of weak institutional environments.
Beyond funding: The moderating role of firms’ R&D human capital on government support and venture capital for regional innovation in China
Technological innovation is a cornerstone of economic growth. It is a crucial determinant of regions’ competitiveness, especially for rapidly developing emerging economies. Past research remained inconclusive on whether venture capital and government subsidies to firms have a significant effect on innovation performance at the regional level. In this article, we show the determining role of investment by firms in R&D human capital. We use panel data from 31 provinces in China, covering the period 1999–2015.