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Micro-level technological capability accumulation in developing economies: Insights from the Brazilian sugarcane ethanol industry
(Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2017-11-20)
Accumulation of indigenous innovative capabilities in firms in developing economies ('latecomer firms') may contribute to sustainable industrial development. To enhance understanding of capability accumulation processes ...
Innovative capability building and learning linkages in knowledge-intensive service SMEs in Brazil's mining industry
(Elsevier Ltd, 2017)
This study examines how small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that are knowledge-intensive service firms (hereafter “knowledge-intensive service SMEs“) accumulate innovative technological capabilities through learning linkages ...
When 'one thing (almost) leads to another': a micro-level exploration of learning linkages in Brazil's mining industry
(Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2016-09)
This paper explores the nature of learning linkages through a qualitative and empirically grounded study of three sets of interactions in Brazil's mining industry and finds that: (1) these linkages vary along a spectrum ...
New challenges for public research organisations in agricultural innovation in developing economies: Evidence from Embrapa in Brazil's soybean industry
(Elsevier B.V., 2016)
This article is concerned with the characteristics of technological capabilities for agricultural innovation in indigenous public research organisations in developing economies. This issue is examined in the context of the ...
Beyond technological catch-up: an empirical investigation of further innovative capability accumulation outcomes in latecomer firms with evidence from Brazil
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2014-03)
This article examines outcomes that are achieved by latecomer firms by accumulating innovative capabilities. By drawing on fieldwork evidence from pulp and paper firms in Brazil from 1950 to 2010, it was found that (1) ...
Embedding with multiple knowledge sources to improve innovation performance: the learning experience of Motorola in Brazil
(Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, 2013-11)
This article explores how a subsidiary of a multi-national enterprise (MNE) in an emerging economy embeds with multiple knowledge sources, both in its corporate network (internal) and in the host country (external), to ...
MNE-subsidiaries' innovation capability building and learning in emerging economies: Firm-level evidence from the ICT industry in Brazil
(2012)
This paper is concerned with innovation capability accumulation paths and the role of learning processes in MNE-subsidiaries in emerging economies. Drawing on evidence from subsidiaries of the ICT industry in Brazil ...
Discontinuous innovation capability accumulation in latecomer natural resource-processing firms
(Elsevier Science Inc, 2010-09)
Most of the studies that describe the building of innovation capability in emerging and developing economies have focused on the ways in which latecomer firms develop continuously towards advanced capability levels along ...
Mudanças em regimes industriais e acumulação de capacidades tecnológicas: evidências de empresas de celulose e papel no Brasil
(Instituto de Economa da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 2009-12-01)
Despite the profusion of studies of firm-level technological capabilities studies, over the past 30 years, there is a scarcity of analyses on similarities and differences across firms, of the same industrial sector, in ...
Firms and innovation system supporting organisations: A brief empirical scrutiny of their knowledge-centred links in a developing area in Brazil
(2007)
Despite the profusion of studies on innovation systems, there still is a scarcity of empirical treatment of this issue in the context of developing countries. This article examines the interactions between firm-level ...
