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Adoption d’innovations et productivité des entreprises en Afrique subsaharienne francophone : cas du Cameroun, de la Côte d’Ivoire et du Sénégal

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  • André Dumas Tsambou
  • Benjamin Fomba Kamga

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The objective of this work is to highlight the impact of innovation adoption on the productivity of firms, with an emphasis on the simultaneous adoption of technological and non-technological innovations. This work uses a methodology consisting of two blocks of recursively structured equations applied to micro-data from 1,897 firms in Cameroon, Côte d?Ivoire, and Senegal. By estimating these equations using the bivariate probit method and two-stage least squares, the study finds that technological and non-technological innovations are complementary and have significant effects on the productivity of firms. This complementarity is evidence that technological innovation contributes more to productivity when it is accompanied by non-technological innovation and vice versa. The introduction of new products (or services), accompanied by new methods of organization and marketing, has a greater effect on the productivity of firms. JEL classification: Q55, O55, P12, J24, D24, O14.

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  • André Dumas Tsambou & Benjamin Fomba Kamga, 2021. "Adoption d’innovations et productivité des entreprises en Afrique subsaharienne francophone : cas du Cameroun, de la Côte d’Ivoire et du Sénégal," Revue d'économie industrielle, De Boeck Université, vol. 0(1), pages 107-160.
    • Handle: RePEc:cai:reidbu:rei_173_0107
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    1. Jean C. Kouam & Simplice A. Asongu & Bin J. Meh & Robert Nantchouang & Fri L. Asanga & Denis Foretia, 2022. "A Synthetic Indicator of the Quality of Support for Businesses in Burkina-Faso, Cameroon, and Ghana," Working Papers of the African Governance and Development Institute. 22/047, African Governance and Development Institute..

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    Keywords

    innovation adoption; francophone sub-Saharan Africa; firms; productivity;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q55 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Technological Innovation
    • O55 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa
    • P12 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Enterprises
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
    • O14 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology

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