Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Banji
Author-Email: oyeyinka@intech.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: United Nations University, Institute for New Technologies
Title: Manufacturing Response in a National System of Innovation: Evidence from the Brewing
	 Firms in Nigeria
Abstract: Employing empirical data, this study examines the innovation response of private
	 Nigerian brewing firms to a state-induced crisis. We found that size, ownership,
	 manufacturing skills, and technical affiliation were decisive factors in the
	 innovation success of firms that survived and prospered under a decidedly turbulent
	 industrial environment. State action, which was equally decisive but measured and
	 based on scientific evidence, was accompanied by appropriate incentives and
	 penalties. Firms with superior innovative performance recorded strong economic
	 performance. The large firms with strong technical and financial support from
	 foreign partners were able to tap into wider knowledge bases locally and broad and
	 subsequently prospered.
Keywords: Small and Medium Enterprises, Innovations, Technology Transfer, Competitiveness,
	 Brewery, Nigeria 
Series: Discussion Paper
Creation-Date: 2002
Number: 2002-03
File-URL: https://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/discussion-papers/2002-3.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 317 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unuint:200203