The primacy of innovation capacities in the NIS of the Maghreb countries: An analysis in terms of learning capacity in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria

Casadella, Vanessa; Bouacida, Rédha Younes

doi:10.1080/20421338.2019.1633097

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“…However, this country faces the challenge of the development of appropriate public policies for the development of innovation [20]; moreover, R and D is mainly concentrated in the public sector. This is because Morocco is characterized by the low contribution of the private sector to R and D activities [21]. It results in a double negative effect (limits the increase in the production of internally generated knowledge and reduces the absorptive capacity of externally acquired knowledge).…”

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Determinants of Sustainable Open Innovations—A Firm-Level Capacity Analysis

Gyamfi

Sein

2021

Sustainability

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Institutional constraints impede firms’ open innovation. They have been a challenge, obstructing growth and sustainable development. Research on open innovation has shown that the quality of institutions essentially affects innovation in firms. Hence, prior research has made efforts to incorporate the quality of institutions into open innovation analysis. We can use a series of analyses to examine the impact of corruption, the tax system, and other indicators on firm innovation performance. However, developing economies, such as countries in sub-Saharan Africa, represent a specific group of countries that have long been perceived as those mostly deficient in the rule of law, with poor regulatory quality and a great deal of corruption. In these countries, it is also possible to see a lower number of studies, as the inability to obtain quality data to perform empirical analyses can often limit researchers. Nevertheless, employing data from the World Bank’s 2019 Enterprise Survey, this research aimed at exploring the determinants of sustainable open innovation as well as the effect of institutional quality on firms’ capacity utilization and process innovation through a PLS structural equation model analysis. Our research showed interesting findings, such as the fact that the quality of institutions significantly affects firms’ use of OI instruments and capacity utilization. This research also provides for the novelty of the analysis of capacity utilization in an open innovation analysis. The results support the hypotheses that low institutional quality negatively affects firms’ implementation of inbound open innovation instruments, and that there is a strong and positive effect of low institutional quality on firms’ capacity utilization. In addition, we confirm the premise that firms’ implementation of inbound open innovation instruments has a positive and significant influence on firms’ process innovation.

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Determinants of Sustainable Open Innovations—A Firm-Level Capacity Analysis

Gyamfi

Sein

2021

Sustainability

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“…Therefore, its economic performance during and post-COVID has reverberations across the sea as 56% of Moroccan merchandise and 64% of its total exports went to the European Union in 2019 (European Commission, 2021a). Secondly, researchers contend that, in spite of substantial manufacturing activity and exports, Moroccan firms have a poor record of product innovation (Rachidi and El Mohajir, 2021), and a low propensity for converting technical information (Casadella and Bouacida, 2020). In view of COVID-19, these capabilities are the exact requirement for firms' resilience and recovery.…”

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Strategy creation behaviour and “last gasp” digitalization as predictors of sales performance and cash flow

Onjewu,

Nyuur,

Paul

et al. 2023

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PurposeAlthough recent literature has examined diverse measures adopted by SMEs to navigate the COVID-19 turbulence, there is a shortage of evidence on how crisis-time strategy creation behaviour and digitalization activities increase (1) sales and (2) cash flow. Thus, predicated on a novel strategy creation perspective, this inquiry aims to investigate the crisis behaviour, sales and cash flow performance of 528 SMEs in Morocco.Design/methodology/approachNovel links between (1) aggregate wage cuts, (2) variable operating hours, (3) deferred payment to suppliers, (4) deferred payment to tax authorities and (5) sales performance are developed and tested. A further link between sales performance and cash flow is also examined and the analysis is conducted using a non-linear structural equation modelling technique.FindingsWhile there is a significant association between strategy creation behaviours and sales performance, only variable operating hours have a positive effect. Also, sales performance increases cash flow and this relationship is substantially strengthened by e-commerce digitalization and innovation.Originality/valueTheoretically, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is one of the first inquiries to espouse the strategy creation view to explain SMEs' crisis-time behaviour and digitalization. For practical purposes, to supplement Moroccan SMEs' propensity to seek tax deferrals, it is argued that debt and equity support measures are also needed to boost sales performance and cash flow.

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“…Given all the innovation policies put in place in Algeria for more than two decades to promote the development of learning and innovation capacities in the economy, the country does not seem to have succeeded in terms of dynamic development of its NIS (Casadella et Younes Bouacida, 2020). Indeed, the Algerian NIS remains immature and suffers from institutional inertia and under-learning (Amdaoud, 2017), which hampers economic performance.…”

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“…If there is an important literature on the construction and analysis of the National Innovation System in Algeria (Casadella and Younes Bouacida, 2020;Amdaoud, 2017;Ben Slimane and Ramadan, 2017;Djeflat, 2016Djeflat, , 2009, there are few studies that have focused their attention on the difficult integration of the higher scientific and technical system into the NIS. Therefore, the aim of this contribution will be to analyze the Algerian NIS in terms of building skills within the higher scientific and technical system to promote learning and innovation capacities.…”

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The national innovation system and the difficulty of integrating the higher education system for science and technology in Algeria

Bouacida¹

2019

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While there is an abundant literature on the construction and analysis of the national innovation system (NIS) in Algeria, few studies have focused on the difficulty of integrating the higher education system for science and technology into the NIS. The aim of this contribution will be to analyze the Algerian NIS in terms of building skills within the scientific and technological higher education system in order to promote learning and innovation capacities. This article considers why Algeria, despite the training policies implemented in postgraduate studies since 1990 to strengthen the scientific and technological system, has not managed to integrate it into its NIS. How will it be able to do this in order to build a strong NIS and improve its economic performance? Our analytic methodology will use three types of indicators (science and technology indicators, composite indicators, and indicators from innovation surveys) in order to describe the different components of the Algerian NIS and, in particular, to analyze the integration of the higher education system for science and technology within the NIS. Lastly, we will propose policies to promote the development of this missing element of the Algerian NIS.JEL classification: O31, O11, O57.

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The primacy of innovation capacities in the NIS of the Maghreb countries: An analysis in terms of learning capacity in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria

Cited by 8 publications

References 32 publications

Determinants of Sustainable Open Innovations—A Firm-Level Capacity Analysis

Determinants of Sustainable Open Innovations—A Firm-Level Capacity Analysis

Strategy creation behaviour and “last gasp” digitalization as predictors of sales performance and cash flow

The national innovation system and the difficulty of integrating the higher education system for science and technology in Algeria

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