The Determinants of Firm’s Innovation in Africa

Ayalew, Misraku Molla; Zhang, Xianzhi; Dinberu, Yidersal Dagnaw; Hailu, Demis Hailegebreal

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“…An enterprise's human capital can be utilised to foster innovation manifested through new or enhanced products, services or processes ( Ayalew et al., 2020 ; Danquah and Amankwah-Amoah, 2017 ; McDowell et al., 2018 ; Onkelinx et al., 2016 ). Thus, in order for innovation to take place, firms need workers with appropriate knowledge, skills, abilities and experiences ( Ismail, 2018 ).…”

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The effect of top managers’ human capital on SME productivity: the mediating role of innovation

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2022

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“…Some prior work (e.g., Gorodnichenko and Schnitzer, 2013; Hadhri et al, 2016; Ayalew et al, 2020) suggests that export intensity and innovation outcomes (R&D, new product sales) might be simultaneously determined, giving rise to an endogeneity concern. To address this issue, we remove export intensity from the regression models and show in untabulated results no significant impact on the reported regression models, in particular the significance and size of our key variable of interest, grants won and interactions with dominance.…”

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Market dominance, R&D grant funding, and innovation outcomes

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Which companies should receive government R&D grants? Should R&D grants go to already dominant firms, whom one would expect to execute fully in innovation spending to produce better outcomes? Or, should grants go to firms that are less dominant and might need the funding for innovation? Using a novel proprietary panel dataset of over 26,000 firm‐year observations for Irish firms with 1,825 winning grants, this paper provides support for a strategic or efficiency effect: market dominance moderates grant innovation outcomes. Specifically, dominant firms significantly outperform other groups in terms of future R&D spending, R&D growth, and overall employment gains. However, they perform worse than other groups with respect to the employment of in‐house R&D workers, suggesting that dominant firms already have significant R&D capabilities. We also show that dominant firms’ future productivity is not statistically different from similar non‐grant backed dominant firms, potentially implying that they use grant money to retain their existing market position, rather than to capitalize on it and increase productivity by more than their peer firms.

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“…En effet, il semble qu'il existe un réel écart entre une minorité créative d'agriculteurs et la masse des exploitants ayant des pratiques plus classiques (Vesala et al, 2007). Au fond, le recensement des travaux portant sur les déterminants de l'innovation fait valoir plusieurs facteurs pertinents (Protogerou et al, 2017 ;Akcigit, Kerr, 2018 ;Ayalew et al, 2019 ;Laperche, Burger-Helmchen, 2019) : la capacité d'adaptation et d'imagination des dirigeants grâce à l'éducation, les caractéristiques de l'entrepreneur et celles de son entreprise, ainsi que les déterminants sociaux et contextuels. Plus précisément, l'éducation, composante essentielle du capital humain, accroît la probabilité d'innovation d'une entreprise de près d'un tiers de point (Akcigit, Kerr, 2018).…”

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The Determinants of Firm’s Innovation in Africa

Cited by 20 publications

References 60 publications

The effect of top managers’ human capital on SME productivity: the mediating role of innovation

The effect of top managers’ human capital on SME productivity: the mediating role of innovation

Market dominance, R&D grant funding, and innovation outcomes

L’innovation comme compétence entrepreneuriale pour des étudiants en gestion agricole : pertinence et difficultés

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