This study examines the relationships between aspects of firm-level innovation performance
from the perspective of under-researched process industries in an emerging economy. We …

The process innovation approach is applied in an exploratory research using data gathered
from the World Bank Enterprises Survey (WBES). Using probit models on a sample of 1,965 …

This article assesses if innovators outperform non-innovators in Brazilian manufacturing
during 1996–2002. To do so, we begin with a simple theoretical model and test the impacts …

This research investigates innovation in Brazil, one of the largest emerging economies in
Latin America. More specifically, we aim to understand how innovation activities conducted …

This paper examines determinants of process innovation introductions across 115 (mostly)
developing countries. Empirical research on process innovations lags behind product …

Using World Bank ICS 2000–2002 data from Brazilian manufacturing firms, this paper
identifies innovation strategies of firms–in particular internal development (“technology …

Industries with greater aggregate levels of research and development (R&D) intensity are
home to higher rates of firm-level innovation, according to survey data from 845 Canadian …

Linking innovation with firms' growth and performance is still a challenge for research. It is
difficult to observe the effect of new products and processes on firms' performance, because …

In this paper, we use evidence on the activity of US publicly traded firms from the early
1980s to the mid-1990s to investigate whether innovation–measured by patenting activity …

Process innovation is an important part of the innovation activities of firms and supposed to
significantly contribute to the returns from innovation. Analysing this link is complicated …