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How can lower-income countries integrate in the innovation-led global economy? 低收入国家如何融入以创新为主导的全球经济？

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International Journal of Innovation Studies

Pub Date : 2025-10-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijis.2025.09.002

Raphael Bar-El , Liran Maymoni

Lower-income countries face a persistent challenge: innovation activities tend to concentrate in more developed regions. Existing research offers limited solutions, often emphasizing local advantages or frugal innovation to reduce regional disparities. This study challenges the conventional approach of competing with advanced economies and proposes an "integrative" strategy that treats innovation as a multifaceted process encompassing diverse activities.

Building on Capello and Lenzi's (2014) distinction between innovation and commercialization, and Bar-El's (2023) differentiation between knowledge creation and implementation, we analyze the drivers of these two innovation types across national income levels. Using regression analysis on the 2024 Global Innovation Index (GII) and K-means clustering, we identify key patterns among high- and lower-income countries.

Our findings reveal a malfunctioning ecosystem for knowledge creation in lower-income countries, where policy support is less effective than it is for the knowledge implementation. Knowledge creation is largely associated with activity by global corporations, contributing to a dual economy with limited local impact. Furthermore, in both income groups, knowledge implementation does not necessarily rely on domestic knowledge creation; instead, these innovation types function independently. In lower-income countries, knowledge implementation is driven by the adaptation of imported knowledge, skilled labor and efficient logistics.

We classify lower-income countries into three clusters: (1) high implementation with some creation, (2) corporate-led creation with low implementation, and (3) minimal activity in both domains.

These findings suggest that innovation policies in lower-income countries should prioritize implementation—enhancing technology adoption, logistics, and workforce skills.

低收入国家面临着一个持续的挑战：创新活动往往集中在较发达的地区。现有的研究提供了有限的解决方案，往往强调地方优势或节俭创新来缩小地区差距。这项研究挑战了与发达经济体竞争的传统方法，并提出了一种“综合”战略，将创新视为一个包含多种活动的多方面过程。基于Capello和Lenzi（2014）对创新和商业化的区分，以及Bar-El（2023）对知识创造和实施的区分，我们分析了这两种创新类型在国民收入水平上的驱动因素。通过对2024年全球创新指数（GII）的回归分析和k均值聚类，我们确定了高收入国家和低收入国家之间的关键模式。我们的研究结果揭示了低收入国家知识创造生态系统的失灵，这些国家的政策支持不如知识实施的有效。知识创造在很大程度上与全球公司的活动有关，对当地影响有限的双重经济作出了贡献。此外，在两个收入群体中，知识实施并不一定依赖于国内知识创造；相反，这些创新类型是独立运作的。在低收入国家，知识实施是由引进知识的适应、熟练劳动力和高效物流驱动的。我们将低收入国家划分为三个集群：(1)高实现率，有一些创新；(2)企业主导的创新，实现率低；(3)两个领域的活动都很少。这些发现表明，低收入国家的创新政策应优先考虑促进实施的技术采用、物流和劳动力技能。

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The impact of innovation on economic growth: A dynamic panel data analysis using system GMM approach 创新对经济增长的影响：基于系统GMM方法的动态面板数据分析

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International Journal of Innovation Studies

Pub Date : 2025-10-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijis.2025.09.003

Şerife Koç , Ramazan Uctu , Hassan Essop , Birol Mercan

The theoretical and empirical evidence that innovation activities positively affect the economic performance of countries is overwhelming. However, since innovation rates vary across countries, the positive impact of innovation activities also varies across countries. As a result, it is crucial to identify the key factors that promote innovation. This paper aims to investigate the impact of innovation on economic growth for the period 2009–2021 in 22 economies, employing the two-stage least squares method (2SLS), as well as the One-Step SGMM and Two-Step SGMM estimators. The analysis used GDP per capita as the dependent variable, and early-stage entrepreneurship rate, mean years of education, R&D expenditures, and trade freedom as independent variables. According to the results obtained from the analysis, the mean years of education, R&D expenditures and trade freedom have positive effects on economic growth. The effect of early-stage entrepreneurship on economic growth is statistically significant and negative.

创新活动对国家经济绩效产生积极影响的理论和实证证据是压倒性的。然而，由于创新率因国而异，创新活动的积极影响也因国而异。因此，确定促进创新的关键因素至关重要。本文旨在利用两阶段最小二乘法（2SLS）以及一步最小二乘法（One-Step SGMM）和两步最小二乘法（Two-Step SGMM）估计器，研究2009-2021年22个经济体的创新对经济增长的影响。该分析将人均GDP作为因变量，将早期创业率、平均受教育年限、研发支出和贸易自由作为自变量。从分析结果来看，平均受教育年限、研发支出和贸易自由度对经济增长有正向影响。早期创业对经济增长的影响在统计上是显著的和负的。

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The mediating role of innovation capability and technological capability in the relationship between absorptive capacity and SMEs' business performance 创新能力和技术能力在吸收能力与中小企业经营绩效关系中的中介作用

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International Journal of Innovation Studies

Pub Date : 2025-09-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijis.2025.09.004

Nuryakin, Ika Nurul Qamari

This study aims to fill the research gap by empirically examining the effects of absorptive capacity on business performance within the scope of small- and medium-enterprises (SMEs), with a mediating role of innovation capability and technological capability in the global market. The study was performed quantitatively to investigate the research model with structural equation modeling (SEM). The data were collected using a purposive sampling technique from 321 global-market-oriented SMEs in Central Java and Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The results showed that all the proposed hypotheses were supported, indicating a positive and significant effect of absorptive capacity on innovation capability, absorptive capacity on technological capability, innovation capability on business performance, and technological capability on business performance. This study presents a solution to the concept of innovation and technological capability, confirming that these two concepts play a crucial role as mediators in the relationship between absorptive capacity and SMEs’ performance.

本研究旨在通过实证检验吸收能力对中小企业经营绩效的影响，以及创新能力和技术能力在全球市场中的中介作用，填补研究空白。采用结构方程模型（SEM）对研究模型进行了定量研究。数据采用有目的的抽样技术从中爪哇和印度尼西亚日惹的321家全球市场导向的中小企业中收集。结果表明，上述假设均得到支持，吸收能力对创新能力、吸收能力对技术能力、创新能力对经营绩效、技术能力对经营绩效均存在显著的正向影响。本研究提出了创新和技术能力概念的解决方案，证实了这两个概念在吸收能力和中小企业绩效之间的关系中起着至关重要的中介作用。

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Addressing the micro-level challenges of research, development and innovation: The case of Welsh creative MSMEs 解决研究，开发和创新的微观层面的挑战：威尔士创意中小微企业的案例

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International Journal of Innovation Studies

Pub Date : 2025-09-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijis.2025.09.001

Safia Najwa Suhaimi, Piotr Swiatek, Andrew Walters, Jo Ward

Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) account for most Welsh creative industries (CIs), positioning them as the main contributors to the sector's development. Despite the documented progress of the industry, there continue to be barriers hampering the engagement of MSMEs in research, development, and innovation (RD&I): the key drivers of growth. Findings from our direct engagement with Welsh creative MSMEs, policy and creative industry experts have revealed important but less recognised challenges impacting effective participation in RD&I-focused opportunities. We discuss how addressing the ‘Behind the Scenes’ Barriers, acknowledging why First Impression Matters and offering Beyond Standard RD&I Support could lead to better engagement in the sector. This study presents practical, design-led recommendations that address Welsh creative MSMEs' needs, capabilities, and capacities, which can be applied to improve future RD&I programmes and innovation policies designed for the sector.

微型、小型和中型企业（MSMEs）占威尔士创意产业（CIs）的大多数，将它们定位为该部门发展的主要贡献者。尽管该行业取得了长足的进步，但仍然存在阻碍中小微企业参与研究、开发和创新（RD&；I）的障碍，而研究、开发和创新是增长的关键驱动力。我们与威尔士创意中小微企业、政策和创意产业专家直接接触的结果揭示了影响有效参与以研发和创新为重点的机会的重要但鲜为人知的挑战。我们讨论了如何解决“幕后”障碍，承认为什么第一印象很重要，并提供超越标准的研发支持，从而更好地参与该行业。这项研究提出了实用的、以设计为主导的建议，解决了威尔士创意中小微企业的需求、能力和能力，这些建议可以应用于改善未来为该部门设计的研发和创新计划和政策。

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Emotional intelligence as an antecedent to innovation championing behavior and the effects of cultural tightness-looseness 情商是创新支持行为的先决条件以及文化松紧度的影响

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International Journal of Innovation Studies

Pub Date : 2025-09-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijis.2025.08.005

Isaam Lutfiyya , Yefeng Wang , Soroush Aslani , K. Praveen Parboteeah

We investigate the effect of emotional intelligence (EI) on innovation championing behavior (ICB). Prior studies have found that successful innovation outcomes are closely correlated with championing behaviors. However, a priori selection of champions in practice remains an ambiguous task because the characteristics of innovation champions remain unidentified and largely unexplored through empirical examination. In this study, we argue that emotional intelligence is an antecedent to innovation championing behavior. We also argue that this relationship is conditioned on the national cultural tightness-looseness of individuals. To examine these hypotheses, we conducted a survey across 33 countries, analyzed data from 251 respondents, and found that emotional intelligence and cultural looseness led to more innovation championing behavior. However, the interaction between these two antecedents did not affect innovation championing behavior.

研究了情绪智力（EI）对创新支持行为（ICB）的影响。先前的研究发现，成功的创新结果与拥护行为密切相关。然而，在实践中对创新领军者的先验选择仍然是一项模棱两可的任务，因为创新领军者的特征仍然是未知的，并且在很大程度上没有通过实证检验来探索。在这项研究中，我们认为情绪智力是创新倡导行为的先决条件。我们还认为，这种关系取决于民族文化的紧与个人的宽松。为了检验这些假设，我们在33个国家进行了一项调查，分析了251名受访者的数据，发现情商和文化宽松导致了更多的创新支持行为。然而，这两个前因之间的交互作用并不影响创新拥护行为。

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Food security concerns moderate safety concerns in the risk perception of imported agricultural and aquatic products 食品安全关注进口农水产品风险认知中的中度安全关注

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International Journal of Innovation Studies

Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijis.2025.08.004

Tariq H. Malik

Global concerns about the safety risks associated with imported food consumption are increasing due to rapid changes in political, economic, and environmental conditions. These concerns, which are largely perceptual in nature, reveal a gap in the existing literature on food risk awareness for two key reasons. First, while food safety awareness has been explored, food security awareness has been largely overlooked. Second, the concepts of food safety and food security are often used interchangeably, though they should be clearly distinguished and analyzed in comparison when examining imported goods. This study applies risk perception theory (RPT) by positioning food safety importance as the baseline predictor of perceived safety risk while introducing food security importance as a moderator that influences the manifestation of this perception. Using survey data from 505 respondents in South Korea, we tested this conceptual model. The findings reveal that the effect of food safety importance on perceived risk becomes weaker when food security importance is high. This suggests that under conditions of heightened concern for food availability and affordability, safety-related apprehensions tend to diminish. These insights have important implications for the design of policies that aim to balance food safety and food security within institutional and governance frameworks.

由于政治、经济和环境条件的迅速变化，全球对与进口食品消费有关的安全风险的关注正在增加。这些担忧在很大程度上是感性的，揭示了现有文献中关于食品风险意识的差距，原因有两个。首先，食品安全意识被挖掘的同时，食品安全意识在很大程度上被忽视了。其次，食品安全和食品安全的概念经常被交替使用，但在检查进口货物时应明确区分和比较分析。本研究运用风险感知理论（RPT），将食品安全重要性定位为感知安全风险的基线预测因子，同时引入食品安全重要性作为影响感知安全风险表现的调节因子。使用来自韩国505名受访者的调查数据，我们对这一概念模型进行了测试。研究发现，食品安全重要性越高，食品安全重要性对感知风险的影响越弱。这表明，在高度关注粮食供应和负担能力的情况下，与安全有关的担忧往往会减少。这些见解对旨在在体制和治理框架内平衡食品安全和粮食保障的政策设计具有重要意义。

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Governance for structural transformation in Africa: Information technology thresholds 非洲结构转型的治理：信息技术门槛

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International Journal of Innovation Studies

Pub Date : 2025-09-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijis.2025.08.003

Simplice A. Asongu , Jean R.F.K. Bouanza , Ekene ThankGod Emeka

This study examines the relevance of information technology in the effect of governance dynamics on structural transformation in Africa. The study focuses on 41 countries in the continent using data for the period 2004 to 2021, and the adopted empirical strategy is the interactive generalized method of moments (GMM). The methodology is tailored to assess how four information and communication technology (ICT) dynamics (i.e., fixed telephone penetration, mobile phone penetration, internet penetration, and fixed broadband subscriptions) moderate ten bundled and unbundled governance dynamics to boost structural transformation. The findings are contingent on ICT and governance dynamics. The study highlights the negative net effects of governance dynamics on structural transformation, as well as the corresponding ICT thresholds that are essential to completely dampen the underlying negative net effects of governance dynamics on structural transformation. The provided ICT policy thresholds are within the statistical range and are thus worthwhile for policy-makers. Policy implications are discussed.

本研究考察了信息技术在治理动态对非洲结构转型影响中的相关性。本研究以非洲大陆41个国家为研究对象，使用2004 - 2021年的数据，采用交互式广义矩量法（GMM）作为实证策略。该方法旨在评估四种信息和通信技术（ICT）动态（即固定电话普及率、移动电话普及率、互联网普及率和固定宽带用户）如何调节十种捆绑和非捆绑治理动态以促进结构转型。调查结果取决于信息通信技术和治理动态。该研究强调了治理动态对结构转型的负面净效应，以及相应的ICT阈值，这些阈值对于完全抑制治理动态对结构转型的潜在负面净效应至关重要。所提供的信息和通信技术政策阈值在统计范围内，因此对决策者来说是值得的。讨论了政策影响。

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The impact of knowledge inflows and outflows on NPD project performance 知识流入和流出对新产品开发项目绩效的影响

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International Journal of Innovation Studies

Pub Date : 2025-08-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijis.2025.08.002

Rodrigo Valio Dominguez Gonzalez

Recent research indicates that companies cannot rely exclusively on their own innovation power to achieve a competitive advantage, and open innovation (OI) represents the strategy for companies to share their innovation process with external partners through knowledge inflows and outflows. Several studies have sought to examine the background of OI and its contribution to firm-level performance. However, few studies have focused on the project team level. The objective of this research is to analyze the impact of two OI flows (inbound and outbound) concerning new product development (NPD) performance, and to study the mediator role of outbound OI in the relation between inbound OI and project performance. This study examines the Brazilian manufacturing industry, involving 242 projects from various industrial sectors, and employs the PLS-SEM method to analyze the research model. The results indicate that outbound OI has a positive relation with project performance, while inbound OI has a negative contribution. In addition, inbound OI has an indirect positive effect on project performance when its contribution is mediated by outbound OI. The mediation results indicate that while inbound OI "pushes" knowledge to project teams, outbound OI "pulls" knowledge originating from the first flow.

近年来的研究表明，企业不能完全依靠自身的创新能力来获得竞争优势，开放式创新是企业通过知识的流入和流出与外部合作伙伴分享创新过程的战略。一些研究试图考察成骨不全的背景及其对公司绩效的贡献。然而，很少有研究关注项目团队层面。本研究的目的是分析两种OI流（流入和流出）对新产品开发（NPD）绩效的影响，并研究流出OI在流入OI与项目绩效关系中的中介作用。本研究以巴西制造业为研究对象，涉及各行业242个项目，采用PLS-SEM方法对研究模型进行分析。结果表明，出站OI与项目绩效呈正相关，入站OI与项目绩效呈负相关。此外，当入站OI的贡献由出站OI介导时，它对项目绩效有间接的积极影响。中介结果表明，当入站OI将知识“推”给项目团队时，出站OI“拉”出来自第一个流的知识。

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Customer environmental pressure, environmental initiatives and innovation as pathways to overcoming operational obstacles: The critical role of gender diversity 顾客环境压力、环境倡议和创新作为克服业务障碍的途径：性别多样性的关键作用

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International Journal of Innovation Studies

Pub Date : 2025-08-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijis.2025.07.008

Afef Ben Delhouma Sghairi , Hanen Sdiri

Environmental sustainability has become a critical focus for many companies globally. Customer expectations increasingly pressure Tunisian firms to adopt environmentally sustainable practices. This study examines the relationships between customer environmental pressure, environmental initiatives, innovation, and firms' operational obstacles. We analyze these interactions using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) and quantitative data from the 2020 World Bank Enterprise Survey on Tunisian firms. The results reveal that customer-driven environmental pressure significantly encourages firms to adopt environmental initiatives, which fosters innovation and helps mitigate operational obstacles. Furthermore, gender diversity moderates the relationship between environmental initiatives and innovation and the link between innovation and firms' operational obstacles. These findings have significant policy implications, underscoring the need to strengthen customer-driven environmental pressure and support firms in adopting sustainable practices, as well as promoting gender diversity, to achieve environmental sustainability and mitigate operational challenges.

环境可持续性已成为全球许多公司关注的焦点。顾客的期望日益迫使突尼斯公司采取环境可持续发展的做法。本研究考察了客户环境压力、环境主动性、创新和企业经营障碍之间的关系。我们使用偏最小二乘结构方程模型（PLS-SEM）和2020年世界银行突尼斯企业调查的定量数据来分析这些相互作用。结果表明，客户驱动的环境压力显著地鼓励企业采取环境举措，从而促进创新并有助于减轻运营障碍。此外，性别多样性调节了环境倡议与创新之间的关系以及创新与企业经营障碍之间的联系。这些发现具有重要的政策意义，强调需要加强客户驱动的环境压力，支持公司采用可持续做法，促进性别多样性，以实现环境可持续性和减轻业务挑战。

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Emerging countries could be different for MSMES: Digitalization and the mediation effects of innovation confronted to environmental practices 对于中小微企业来说，新兴国家可能会有所不同：数字化和创新对环境实践的中介效应

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International Journal of Innovation Studies

Pub Date : 2025-08-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijis.2025.08.001

José Antonio Clemente-Almendros , Alejandro Díaz Pelaez , Gilber Chura Quispe , Jehovanni Fabricio Velarde Molina

Our study analyses the direct and indirect effects of digital strategic orientation on the performance of micro, small- and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in emerging countries. Based on a statistically representative database of Peruvian MSMEs, we use a structural equation model to test the effects of digital strategies on MSMEs’ performance as well as the mediation effect of innovation and environmental practices. Our results show the total positive effect of digital strategies, both directly and mediated by innovation. However, environmental practices do not exert either a direct or a mediating effect. It is necessary for the concurrence of innovation so that environmental practices exert the expected mediation effect. The total effect of digitalization on MSMEs’ competitiveness is almost twice the size of the direct effect, resulting from both mediation effects. We shed light on the importance of analyzing emerging countries in the literature and test the influence of contextual factors.

我们的研究分析了数字化战略导向对新兴国家中小微企业（MSMEs）绩效的直接和间接影响。基于秘鲁中小微企业的统计代表性数据库，我们采用结构方程模型检验了数字化战略对中小微企业绩效的影响，以及创新和环境实践的中介效应。我们的研究结果显示了数字化战略的总体积极影响，无论是直接的还是由创新介导的。然而，环境实践既不发挥直接作用，也不发挥中介作用。要使环境实践发挥预期的中介作用，创新的协同性是必要的。数字化对中小微企业竞争力的总影响几乎是直接影响的两倍，这是两种中介效应共同作用的结果。我们阐明了在文献中分析新兴国家的重要性，并测试了背景因素的影响。

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