Measuring Firm-Level Innovation Using Short Questionnaires: Evidence from an Experiment
Little is known about innovation in developing countries, partly because of the lack of comparable and reliable data. Collecting data on firm-level innovation is challenging because of the subjective definition of what determines an innovation, a problem that is exacerbated in developing countries w...
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The World Bank
2016
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Zusammenfassung: | Little is known about innovation in developing countries, partly because of the lack of comparable and reliable data. Collecting data on firm-level innovation is challenging because of the subjective definition of what determines an innovation, a problem that is exacerbated in developing countries where innovation is likely to be more incremental and less radical. This paper contributes to the literature by presenting the results of an experiment aiming to identify the survey instrument that better captures firm-level innovation in developing countries. The paper shows that a small set of questions included in a multi-topic, firm-level survey does not provide an accurate picture of firm-level innovation and tends to overestimate innovation rates. Issues related to framing explain some of the unreliability of innovation responses, while cognitive problems do not appear to play a significant role |
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DOI: | 10.1596/1813-9450-7696 |
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title | Measuring Firm-Level Innovation Using Short Questionnaires Evidence from an Experiment |
title_auth | Measuring Firm-Level Innovation Using Short Questionnaires Evidence from an Experiment |
title_exact_search | Measuring Firm-Level Innovation Using Short Questionnaires Evidence from an Experiment |
title_full | Measuring Firm-Level Innovation Using Short Questionnaires Evidence from an Experiment Xavier Cirera |
title_fullStr | Measuring Firm-Level Innovation Using Short Questionnaires Evidence from an Experiment Xavier Cirera |
title_full_unstemmed | Measuring Firm-Level Innovation Using Short Questionnaires Evidence from an Experiment Xavier Cirera |
title_short | Measuring Firm-Level Innovation Using Short Questionnaires |
title_sort | measuring firm level innovation using short questionnaires evidence from an experiment |
title_sub | Evidence from an Experiment |
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