Empirical study of national technological innovation capability in Africa

Innovation and Technological Capability in Indonesia

[New challenges for national capability in vaccine technology: domestic technological innovation versus technology transfer].

The Brazilian National Immunization Program (PNI) has been introducing technologically modern and high added-value vaccines into its routine immunization. While such vaccines have a positive impact on the country's health situation, they also overly pressure the Ministry of Health's budget. The technological capability of national vaccine manufacturers, mostly public institutions, has fostered ...

Knowledge sharing and firm innovation capability: an empirical study

Purpose – The study sets out to examine the influence of individual factors (enjoyment in helping others and knowledge self-efficacy), organizational factors (top management support and organizational rewards) and technology factors (information and communication technology use) on knowledge sharing processes and whether more leads to superior firm innovation capability. Design/methodology/appr...

The Necessity of Technological Innovation in the World's Steel Industry

Steel industry is one of the leading industries in the world. Today it is also one of the fundamental and strategic industries of the world. Per capita production and consumption amount of steel are used as a criterion for evaluation of country development. Furthermore, attention to technological innovations is assumed so much crucial to access the international markets of steel industrie...

KIBS innovation management capability in Rural Portuguese regions: empirical evidence

This article aims to evaluate the innovation management capacities of knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) and verify to what extent these companies return different profiles when classified by urban versus rural. Taking a sample of 500 KIBS, we applied a questionnaire with results revealing different explanatory variables for KIBS innovation capacities. From the set of five dimensions ...