Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/25713 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Jena Economic Research Papers No. 2008,017
Publisher: 
Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
Abstract: 
This paper provides a firm-level empirical analysis on the ways in which corruption affects innovative activity. Particularly with respect to the African continent that is striving to reconcile with instability and poverty, this issue seems to be of utmost importance. Using a newly available dataset on African firms, it is shown that corruption has a negative effect on product innovation and organisational innovation. Corruption does not affect process innovation while it facilitates marketing innovation.
Subjects: 
Corruption
Developing Economies
Product Innovation
Process Innovation
Organisational Innovation
marketing Innovation
Taxation
JEL: 
D73
O14
O31
H11
H25
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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