Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Zita, Júlia Eva Baltazar 
Author-Email: Julia.Zita@mc.gov.mz
Author-Workplace-Name: Ministry of Science and Technology, Republic of Mozambique
Author-Name: Lopes, Avelino Hermíneo
Author-Workplace-Name: EnerTerra, Maputo, Republic of Mozambique
Title: User innovation in the business enterprise sector of Maputo Province in 
	 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.
Classification-JEL: O31, O33, O34
Keywords: User innovation, development, knowledge sharing
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2011
Number: 062
File-URL: http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2011/wp2011-062.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2011062