Wladimir Raymond

Product, Process and Organizational Innovation: Drivers, Complementarity and Productivity Effects

We propose a model where both R&D and ICT investment feed into a system of three innovation output equations (product, process and organizational innovation), which ultimately feeds into a productivity equation. We find that ICT investment and usage are important drivers of innovation in both manufacturing and services. Doing more R&D has a positive effect on product innovation in manufacturing. The strongest productivity effects are derived from organizational innovation. We find positive effects of product and process innovation when combined with an organizational innovation. There is evidence that organizational innovation is complementary to process innovation.

Innovation in Enterprise Clusters:Evidence from Dutch Manufacturing

This paper explores the aggregation problem and illustrates its relevance using data for the Netherlands from the third Community Innovation Survey (CIS3), and production and financial statistics. It compares the results of an innovation output equation that was estimated using data on enterprises (bedrijfseenheid), domestic enterprise clusters (onderneming), and those enterprise clusters with foreign inward or outward investments.

How do foreign firms’ corruption practices affect innovation performance in host countries? Industry-level evidence from transition economies

Abstract Using data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS), this article investigates how foreign firms’ involvement in corruption practices affects the innovation behaviour and performance of their direct competitors in transition economies of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. By unbundling corruption practices into grand and petty corruption transactions, this paper contributes to deepening the analysis of the ‘grease the wheels’ versus the ‘sand the wheels’ effects of corruption on innovation performance. Our empirical results indicate that grand corruption stifles the propensity of firms in the same line of business to conduct R&D activities and to bring new or upgraded products and services to the market, whereas petty corruption of foreign firms tends to foster major innovations in the domestic market. Domestic firms’ involvement in petty corruption appears to be detrimental to innovation efforts and incremental innovation, but not to major innovation.