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The impact of OFDI on firm innovation in an emerging country
May 15, 2017 Editor 0
The impact of OFDI on firm innovation in an emerging country Hang Wu; Jin Chen; Yang Liu International Journal of Technology Management, Vol. 74, No. 1/2/3/4 (2017) pp. 167 – 184 This study investigates whether and to what extent EM MNEs employ OFDI for knowledge-seeking and knowledge-integration purposes to improve their innovation capability at home. […]
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To foster innovation, let a hundred flowers bloom?
May 15, 2017 Editor 0
Helen Mwangi and her solar-powered water pump in Kenya © infoDev/World Bank Managers of initiatives that support innovative entrepreneurs have a choice to spread their resources (and luck) among many opportunities or focus them on the most promising few. In developing countries, public and donor programs can learn a lot from how private investors pick and back innovative […]
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Can China be an innovation powerhouse?
December 18, 2015 Editor 0
China has made great strides toward innovation and technology-driven economy in recent years. There are many firms that are emerging as global players in the technology arena, especially in the ICT sector, such as Lenovo, Huawei, ZTE, Tencent and Xiaomi (which has shaken the legendary smart phone makers – Apple and Samsung – through its […]
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Innovation’s New World Order
November 23, 2015 Editor 0
The Global Innovation 1000 study has shown that it’s not how much you spend on R&D, but how you spend it, that determines your success. However, it also matters where you spend it– and our 2015 study shows that decisions about R&D location look very different today than they did less than a decade ago. […]
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What Happened to the Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
August 10, 2015 Editor 0
For years we have been regaled with prospects of outsized productivity increases in the United States such as those that actually accompanied the Industrial Revolution, the Second World War, and the period from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s. During another productivity bonanza, the one that extended from 1995 to about 2005, we speculated in one […]
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Are you an Innovator /entrepreneur? Do you want to inspire others?
May 21, 2015 Editor 0
Innovation Africa is ten years old this year. To celebrate our anniversary we are compiling a book on African innovators and Entrepreneurs. Are you an Innovator /entrepreneur? Do you want to inspire others? Through our ten years, we have seen spectacular developments in ICTs, science and business across Africa. We have reported many of these […]
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