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User innovation in the business enterprise sector of Maputo Province in Mozambique

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  • Zita, Júlia Eva Baltazar

    (Ministry of Science and Technology, Republic of Mozambique)

  • Lopes, Avelino Hermíneo

    (EnerTerra, Maputo, Republic of Mozambique)

Abstract

Evidence of user innovation in firms in Maputo Province is presented. This results from a case study of firms that had previously been identified in the Mozambican National Innovation Survey 2009 as process innovators. While the observations are too few to support statistical inferences, they demonstrate the presence of user innovation in firms and they suggest further work on the policy implications, especially related to support for innovation in firms that perform no research and development. The case study found little evidence of the sharing of knowledge gained through user innovation, in contrast with findings from industrialized countries but closer to results from the newly industrialized country of Korea.

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  • Zita, Júlia Eva Baltazar & Lopes, Avelino Hermíneo, 2011. "User innovation in the business enterprise sector of Maputo Province in Mozambique," MERIT Working Papers 2011-062, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
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    1. Jeroen P.J. de Jong & Eric von Hippel, 2013. "User innovation: business and consumers," Chapters, in: Fred Gault (ed.), Handbook of Innovation Indicators and Measurement, chapter 5, pages 109-132, Edward Elgar Publishing.

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    Keywords

    User innovation; development; knowledge sharing;
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    JEL classification:

    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • O34 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital

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