Capital Is Not Enough: Innovation in Developing Economies

By S. Bradley, Jeffery S. McMullen, Kendall Artz, E. Simiyu. 2012

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Innovation and productivity in formal and informal firms in Ghana (2017, positive): “This supports Bradley et al. (2012) study of Kenyan firms in which education and human capital were the main constraints to innovation.”
Delineating the Domain of Development Entrepreneurship: A Market–Based Approach to Facilitating Inclusive Economic Growth (2011, background): “…to imagine why entrepreneurs at the BOP would be immune to the need for innovation and the need to navigate the demand and supply uncertainty it creates in an LDC where resources are even more scarce and thus subject to even greater competition from alternative uses (Bradley et al., 2010).”
Innovation for Inclusive Growth: Towards a Theoretical Framework and a Research Agenda (2012, methodology): “Alternatively, does inclusive innovation more often depend on the attributes of the innovations themselves rather than the source of the ideas that give rise to the innovative activity (Bradley et al., 2012 (this issue))?”
The Schumpeterian entrepreneur: a review of the empirical evidence on the antecedents, behaviour and consequences of innovative entrepreneurship (2017, positive): “Conducting a survey of 201 small business owners in Kenya who participated in a microcredit program, Bradley et al. (2012) find that innovation is an important moderating variable for the effect of social, business, and individual capital on firm performance.”
Entrepreneurial leadership of CEOs and employees’ innovative behavior in high-technology new ventures (2020, background): “Yet, the majority of businesses in developing economies lack the capacity to innovate (Bradley et al., 2012; Kamalian et al., 2011).”
How does microfinance enhance entrepreneurial outcomes in emerging economies? The mediating mechanisms of psychological and social capital (2014, background): “Poor entrepreneurs within impoverished settings in particular may be lacking in the forms of capital needed to succeed in business and may be driven to entrepreneurship not by opportunity, but necessity (Bradley et al., 2012; McMullen et al., 2008), given few options in the immediate environment for”
Human Capital and Entrepreneurship Research: A Critical Review and Future Directions (2016, background): “…2009 Markman & Baron, 2003 Journal of Management Entrepreneurship and Regional Journal of Business Venturing Studies Development Cooper et al., 1994 Bradley et al., 2012 Honig, 1998 Michael, 1996 Dimov, 2012 Hinz & Jungbauer-Gans, 1999 Carter et al., 1997 Ucbasaran et al., 2003 Lerner et al., 1997…”
What Makes an Entrepreneurship Study Entrepreneurial? Toward A Unified Theory of Entrepreneurial Agency (2020, background): “, 2012); ability—for example, distributed agency enables enough technical and cultural knowledge to enact development entrepreneurship (Bradley et al., 2012; McMullen, 2011); institutions—for example, formal and informal institutions vary and are subject to leverage and influence by entrepreneurs (D”
Academic collaborations and firm innovation performance in China: : The role of region-specific institutions (2015, background): “IPR laws are typically underdeveloped or under-enforced in emerging economies, providing organizations with little protection from imitators and opportunistic behavior (Bradley et al., 2012; Keupp et al., 2012).”
The Creation and Diffusion of Innovation in Developing Countries : A Systematic Literature Review (2016, positive): “From a survey of 201 small business owners involved in a microcredit programme in Kenya, Bradley et al. (2012) advocate that capital is not a “silver bullet”, and education and human capital are the major constraints of 17 innovation.”
Cross‐Country Determinants of Early‐Stage Necessity and Opportunity‐Motivated Entrepreneurship: Accounting for Model Uncertainty (2018, positive): “Human capital has been also connected to the accumulation of new knowledge that can lead to various advantages for firms (Bradley et al. 2012).”