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WORKING PAPER 68 | Productivity Convergence and Learning by Exporting, Firm-Level Evidence from Tunisia
Despite impressive economic growth, productivity in Tunisia has not increased as much as GDP in recent decades. This paper documents that only a few top-performing firms have increased their productivity; by and large, most manufacturing firms’ productivity levels have remained stagnant. This finding might imply that Tunisia’s recent GDP growth might be a one-off event
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WORKING PAPER 67 | Create or Buy? – Internal vs. External Source of Innovation and Firm Productivity
This paper fills this gap in knowledge on innovation outsourcing’s effect on productivity from more general industries in developing countries, by examining representative firms in manufacturing sector in Tunisia. In this paper, I analyse the determinants of a firm’s decision to invest in different sources of innovation, and the effects of these different sources on
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WORKING PAPER 66 | The Catch up Pattern under a Window of Opportunity: the Experience of a Grassroots Company from a Developing Country
During the past 30 years China’s economic development has made remarkable achievements. At the same time, the Chinese enterprises have also attempted to move from being labour intensive to high-tech intensive. The Chinese high-tech industry has made preliminary achievements in some aspects, particularly in telecommunications. Huawei has been regarded the most innovative company in China.
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WORKING PAPER 65 | The decision and process of standard-setting in a catch up strategy for latecomer countries: the cases of China and Korea
This paper examines standard-setting process in China in relation with standard-setting processes in Korea to illustrate the key factors and mechanisms affecting catch up in latecomer economies, particularly from the perspective of government decision and support. It has three contributions to the existing literature. First, it offers a new perspective in understanding standard-setting in the
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WORKING PAPER 64 | Determinants of Firm Innovation in Indonesia: The Role of Institutions and Access to Finance
This paper investigates the determinants of firm innovation in Indonesia. We focus on the impact of institutions and access to finance on innovative activities of Indonesian firms. We employ the quality of local regulations index constructed by the Indonesia’s Regional Autonomy Watch (KPPOD) as an exogenous measure of institutions. For firm level variables, we use
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THESIS | Mobile Phone Diffusion and Rural Healthcare Access in India and China
Three decades of mobile phone diffusion, thousands of mobile-phone-based health projects worldwide (“mHealth”), and tens of thousands of health applications in Apple’s iTunes store, but fundamental questions about the effect of phone diffusion on people’s healthcare behaviour remain unanswered. Empirical, theoretical, and methodological gaps in the study of mobile phones and health reinforce each other
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WORKING PAPER 63 | Government Support, Innovation and Productivity in the Haidian (Beijing) District
This paper examines whether the government support in favor of firms located in the Haidian district of Beijing, which includes the Zhongguancun Science Park, was effective in terms of innovation and economic performance. We use a dataset of 500 manufacturing firms that results from a merger of the 2007 nation-wide innovation survey and the Annual
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WORKING PAPER 61 | NSI to IDS: From the National System of Innovation to an African National Innovation and Development System (IDS)
There are four approaches to economic growth and development. The first is historical development that is best articulated in the history of development studies; the second is the Listian political economy approach that inspired import substitution industrialization and the developmental state. List introduced the political context explicitly and forthrightly to the challenges of economic development.
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WORKING PAPER 60 | Policy dynamics and institutional dysfunctions in public agricultural research and innovation
Ghana’s agricultural policies in recent years have emphasized technology development objectives to the neglect of addressing the conditions surrounding the actors in the sector. In this paper we analyse some of the technologies generated within the current socio-technical regime and impacts with the view to considering options for improving on public agricultural research. The paper
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WORKING PAPER 62 | The diffusion of innovation in the private sectors in Low-income Countries (LICs): A systematic literature review
Innovation is a key element of industrialisation and catch-up in developing countries, however its diffusion and adoption is neither costless nor unconditional. In the past decades development indicators have improved in most Low-income Countries (LICs) and the concept of innovation has shifted from being an end of development to a means of it. In this
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