Complementarity in firm-level innovation stategies: a comparative study of Kenya and Nigeria
Authors
Pedro Mendi
Robert Mudida
Abiodun Egbetokun
Type
Article
Journal
Innovation and Development Volume 6 Issue 1
Date
30-09-2015
Abstract

We present and analyse firm-level innovation data from Kenya and Nigeria. We test for the existence of complementarities between internal R&D and external innovation activities, and between organizational and marketing innovations. Some evidence is found on the existence of complementarities between internal and external technological innovation strategies in the case of Kenya, but not in the case of Nigeria. However, organizational and marketing innovations do not appear to be complementary in innovation either in Kenya or in Nigeria.

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