Internal innovations, foreign technology and productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa’s manufacturing firms: The role of absorptive capacity

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Internal firm innovations and external knowledge/technology transfer are key for spurring the growth of firms and economies. We investigate whether firms that engage in such innovations are more likely to be productive than others as well determine if external knowledge transfers may have an effect on labor productivity mediated by the existence of internal absorptive capacity (generated by human capital and R&D)....

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241bde40-f625-5a50-8740-126b5db6b59f

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10.21203/rs.3.rs-1645448/v1