Adoption of Innovations and Productivity of Enterprises in French-Speaking sub-Saharan Africa: Case of Cameroon, Senegal and Ivory Coast
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2021-08
Authors
Dumas, Tsambou André
Ludwick, Ndokang Esone
Aline, Zobo
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Abstract
The productivity of firms is the result of many factors, including their ability to
innovate. For most authors, innovation can be diversified into product, process,
organization, and marketing innovation. The objective of this work is to highlight
the impact of the adoption of innovations on firms’ productivity in Cameroon,
Senegal, and Ivory Coast. This work is based on the survey "Determinants of
firms’ performance in Francophone sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Cameroon,
Ivory Coast and Senegal conducted among 1,897 companies (639 in Cameroon,
723 in Senegal and 535 in Ivory Coast) in 2014 by the International Development