This study explored the obstacles that informal innovators encounter in product
development, prototyping, commercialization and adoption of informal innovations in …

Little attention has been given to the processes and factors that facilitate technological
adaptation by informal innovators operating in small and medium enterprises in Zimbabwe …

The literature revealed that 70–80% of South African small businesses, including informal
micro-enterprises, fail in the first year of their existence. Innovation has been recognized as …

There is inadequate information with respect to the impact of innovations developed in small
and medium enterprises (SMEs) and how they benefit specific population segments in …

Even though the informal sector is the largest contributor to African economies, very little
empirical research has been done on determinants of and barriers to product innovation in …

Innovation has been discerned as a catalyst that enables firms to remain relevant and
sustainable. In recent years, the innovation discipline has been extended to the informal …

An unresolved question in innovation studies in Africa has been on why informal innovators
develop technological innovations. The objective of this study was to establish the causative …

This study uses data collected from 602 randomly selected informal metal industry
entrepreneurs across 15 cluster-sampled districts in eight of Zimbabwe's 10 provinces to …

Informal enterprises learn how to produce goods and services through cumulative and
diverse ways. However, there is limited empirical evidence on how learning processes …

Informal innovation has been investigated in numerous countries, but its incidence in
developing countries, and relationship with informal business development, has been …