Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/323982 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of the Knowledge Economy [ISSN:] 1868-7873 [Publisher:] Springer Nature [Place:] Berlin [Year:] 2025
Publisher: 
Springer Nature, Berlin
Abstract: 
African innovators typically suffer from severe resource constraints and need to develop strategies to cope with these constraints. This paper focusses on external knowledge sourcing and, in particular, on the role of cooperation as a means to compensate for missing resources. Findings suggest that domestic inter-firm coop eration is of outstanding importance for firm-level innovation in Nigeria, whereas cooperation with other partners (research institutions, foreign firms, consultants, or the government) has no sizable impact on the innovative performance of Nigerian firms. Moreover, we show that it is in particular young firms and firms suffering from financial constraints that benefit from cooperation, whereas foreign-owned firms benefit less. Our findings contribute to a better understanding of the drivers of firm-level innovation in sub-Saharan Africa and have important implications for firm strategies and innovation policy
Subjects: 
Resource-constrained innovation
Knowledge sourcing
Inter-firm cooperation
Coactive learning
Africa
JEL: 
D22
L25
O32
O36
O55
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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