Determinants of Technological and non-technological Innovations: Evidence from Ghana’ Manufacturing and Service Sectors

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/70883521:28120/22:63548918 RIV/00216275:25410/23:39919549 RIV/70883521:28120/23:63548918

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15228916.2022.2113209?journalCode=wjab20" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15228916.2022.2113209?journalCode=wjab20</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15228916.2022.2113209" target="_blank" >10.1080/15228916.2022.2113209</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Determinants of Technological and non-technological Innovations: Evidence from Ghana’ Manufacturing and Service Sectors

Original language description

This paper aims at investigating the various factors driving technological and non-technological innovations in the manufacturing and service sectors in Ghana. We argue that numerous previous studies have shown that digitalization, firms’ collaborations, access to finance, engaging in research and development and certain firm characteristic such as age, size and ownership influence firms’ aptitude and incentives to be innovative. However, in the context of developing countries like Ghana, we do not know whether these same determinants also have positive effects on stimulating innovations at the firm-level. Using a sample of 549 firms sourced from the World Bank Enterprises Survey conducted between 2007 and 2013, this study finds that the adoption of digitalization promotes non-technological (organizational) innovations than technological innovations. We also find that firms’ innovation collaboration with consultants and universities rather exert no impact on technological and non-technological innovations. Our finding show that internal R&amp;D enhance technological innovations and not non-technological innovations. The main practical implications of the study are that attempts to boosting firm-level and developing countries innovation potentials should mainly focus on improving internal R&amp;D and innovation support activities, expanding access to finance, and upgrading Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure to enhance digitalization.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50204 - Business and management

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of African Business

ISSN

1522-8916

e-ISSN

1522-9076

Volume of the periodical

24

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

467-490

UT code for WoS article

000843084500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85136507564