 Determinants of firms' innovation and the role of R%D investment and training: empirical evidence from Tunisian SMEsAbdelhammid Bourouaha and Samir Baha-Eddine Maliki () International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, 2021, vol. 25, issue 3, 285-303 Abstract: The article aims to examine the determinants of firms' innovation in Tunisia. Following changes in the business world, companies over the world are increasingly including innovation as a strategy to ensure business expansion. Using the World Bank enterprise data-survey to test the correlation between two variables, the determinants of innovation and innovation were obtained, by applying a logit and probit regression approach. The findings showed that R%D investment with other firms, training, and sector variables are an important determinant of innovation. It was however established by the study that the firms' age, size and employee variables negatively affect the chances of innovation. Equally, it was found that the same factors (investing in R%D at home, formal training) were the significant determinants of product, process, organisational, marketing or logistic innovation. Thus, the policy implications of the results recommend that firms should make significant factors as the priorities to boost innovation. Keywords: innovation; formal training; R%D; Tunisia; logit and probit models. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijbire:v:25:y:2021:i:3:p:285-303 Access Statistics for this article More articles in International Journal of Business Innovation and Research from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd |
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