Firm-Level Technology Adoption in Vietnam

Abstract

The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

The Innovation Imperative for Developing East Asia

“…Moreover, the same firm (for example, Firm 1) can be near the frontier in its use of food storage technology but far from the frontier in the use of input testing technology (figure 3.8, panel d). Cirera, Comin, Cruz, Lee, and Martins-Neto (2020) show, in fact, that within-firm variation in the use of technology (figure 3.8, panels b and d) is larger than the cross-firm variation (figure 3.8, panels a and c).…”

“…Source: World Bank estimates, using the 2020 Firm-level Adoption of Technology (FAT) survey of Vietnamese firms (Cirera, Comin, Cruz, Lee, and Martins-Neto 2020).…”

“…To better assess firms' readiness to adopt technology, a "digital readiness index" was developed, using the FAT survey for Vietnam (Cirera, Comin, Cruz, Lee, and Martins-Neto 2020). The index measures the extent of firms' digitalization by business function.…”

Vietnam

“…Low human capital and skill mismatches in the labor market remain a concern (IMF, 2020). Despite greater integration with global value chains (GVCs), data from the Firm-level Adoption of Technology survey of Vietnamese firms also shows that most firms are at a significant distance from the technological frontier (Cirera et al, 2020), reflecting weak technology diffusion. Finally, the extent of process innovation is considerably weaker in small firms, compared to medium or large companies and in domestic firms.…”

Firm-Level Adoption of Technologies in Senegal

“…This paper is part of a series of studies analyzing country-specific data from the FAT survey Cirera et al (2021b). andCirera et al (2021a) describes the results for Vietnam and the state of Ceará, in Brazil.…”