Factors influencing innovation among small, micro and medium enterprises (SMMEs) in marginalized settings: evidence from South Africa

IF 1.4 Q3 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Innovation and Development Pub Date : 2023-09-02 DOI:10.1080/2157930X.2022.2092681

A. Bolosha, S. Sinyolo, K. Ramoroka

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ABSTRACT Achieving inclusive outcomes through innovation is such that small, micro and medium enterprises (SMMEs) can no longer be ignored. This study aims to investigate the determinants of innovation activities among SMMEs in a developing country context using evidence from South Africa. Using the binary logistic regression model, this paper analysed a dataset of 643 SMMEs located across eight district municipalities in South Africa. The study findings revealed that there are dynamic innovation activities occurring among SMMEs located in rural and/or informal settings, focusing on making incremental changes to production and delivery processes adopted from elsewhere. The study identified several factors that hinder or enhance innovation activities among SMMEs, revealing that the factors associated with innovation activities vary depending on the nature of the innovation activity. Empirical insights from this study could better inform strategies used by policy makers to promote innovation that strengthen the competitiveness of SMMEs and innovation that is socially inclusive.

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影响边缘化环境中的小型、微型和中型企业（SMMEs）创新的因素：来自南非的证据

摘要通过创新实现包容性成果，不能再忽视中小型和微型企业（SMMEs）。本研究旨在利用南非的证据，调查发展中国家中小型企业创新活动的决定因素。本文使用二元逻辑回归模型，分析了南非八个地区市的 643 家中小型企业的数据集。研究结果表明，位于农村和/或非正规环境中的中小型企业正在开展动态创新活动，重点是对从其他地方采用的生产和交付流程进行渐进式变革。研究确定了阻碍或促进中小型企业创新活动的若干因素，揭示了与创新活动相关的因素因创新活动的性质而异。这项研究得出的经验性见解可以更好地为政策制定者的战略提供参考，从而促进创新，增强中小型企业的竞争力和具有社会包容性的创新。

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Innovation and Development Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

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期刊介绍： conomic development and growth depend as much on social innovations as on technological advances. However, the discourse has often been confined to technological innovations in the industrial sector, with insufficient attention being paid to institutional and organisational change and to the informal sector which in some countries in the South plays a significant role. Innovation and Development is an interdisciplinary journal that adopts a broad approach to the study of innovation, in all sectors of the economy and sections of society, furthering understanding of the multidimensional process of innovation and development. It provides a forum for the discussion of issues pertaining to innovation, development and their interaction, both in the developed and developing world, with the aim of encouraging sustainable and inclusive growth. The journal encourages articles that approach the problem broadly in line with innovation system perspective focusing on the evolutionary and institutional structure of innovation and development. This focus cuts across the disciplines of Economics, Sociology, Political Science, Science and Technology Policy, Geography and Development Practice. In a section entitled Innovation in Practice, the journal includes short reports on innovative experiments with proven development impact with a view to encouraging scholars to undertake systematic inquiries on such experiments. Brief abstracts of degree awarded PhD theses in the broad area of concern for the journal and brief notes which highlight innovative ways of using internet resources and new databases or software are also published.