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Green Technology Innovation and Firm-Level Technical Efficiency in the Philippines

paper
green-innovation
firm-efficiency
DEA

Using Data Envelopment Analysis and spatial Tobit models on 748 firms from the 2024 World Bank Green Economy Survey, this paper shows that green innovation improves technical efficiency by 8.7%, with greater gains for large firms and urban manufacturers.

Feb 1, 2025

Formal Financial Inclusion and Mobile Financial Services Among Women in Burkina Faso

paper
financial-inclusion
africa
fintech

New paper in Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies examines the endogenous nexus between mobile/smart telecom access and women’s consumption of mobile financial services in post-COVID-19 Burkina Faso.

Jan 1, 2025

Digital Strategy, Quality Certification, and Sales Performance: A Machine Learning Approach

paper
machine-learning
digital-strategy
open-innovation
featured

Published in the Journal of Open Innovation, this paper uses data science and machine learning to evaluate how digital strategy moderates the relationship between quality certification and firm sales performance.

Jul 1, 2024

Digital Payment–Financial Inclusion Nexus and Payment System Innovation During COVID-19

paper
digital-finance
financial-inclusion
open-innovation
featured

This paper in the Journal of Open Innovation examines how digital payment adoption and financial inclusion interact to drive payment system innovation in the global open economy during the pandemic.

Dec 1, 2023

Global Supply and Demand of Entrepreneurial Finance: A Random Utility Theory Perspective

paper
entrepreneurial-finance
random-utility
open-innovation

This paper in the Journal of Open Innovation applies a Random Utility Theory framework to analyze the global supply and demand of entrepreneurial finance, linking neo-classical economic theory to revealed market preference data.

Jan 1, 2022

COVID-19 Vaccine Development in a Quadruple Helix Innovation System: The UAE

paper
health-economics
UAE
covid-19
open-innovation

This paper in the Journal of Open Innovation uncovers the preferences of civil society — the fourth helix — in the UAE’s COVID-19 vaccine development innovation system, using discrete choice modelling.

Oct 1, 2020
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