[ Les déterminants de l’innovation dans les PME agroalimentaires au Cameroun ]
Volume 30, Issue 1, July 2020, Pages 230–238
Honoré Tekam Oumbe1 and Charles Bertin Pilag Kakeu2
1 Faculté de sciences économiques et de gestion Université de Dschang, Cameroun
2 Faculté de sciences économiques et de gestion Université de Dschang, Cameroun
Original language: French
Copyright © 2020 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The main objective of this article is to analyze the determinants of innovation within agri-food SMEs in Cameroon. Our empirical analysis is based on secondary source data from the study on the analysis of the determinants of firm’s performance in francophone sub-Saharan Africa: the cases of Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal conducted in 2014 with the support of IDRC. The logistic regression analysis reveals that: R&D, size of the firm, and cooperation influence the innovative capacity of firms, but different forms of innovation must be taken into account. We also find that competition significantly influences the capacity of innovation, but that it acts by diminishing the capacity for innovation. Finally, we find that geographical location positively and significantly affects all forms of innovation. These results contribute in the understanding of the innovation phenomenon within agri-food companies.
Author Keywords: Innovation, R&D, agribusiness, SMEs, Cameroon, logistics.
Volume 30, Issue 1, July 2020, Pages 230–238
Honoré Tekam Oumbe1 and Charles Bertin Pilag Kakeu2
1 Faculté de sciences économiques et de gestion Université de Dschang, Cameroun
2 Faculté de sciences économiques et de gestion Université de Dschang, Cameroun
Original language: French
Copyright © 2020 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The main objective of this article is to analyze the determinants of innovation within agri-food SMEs in Cameroon. Our empirical analysis is based on secondary source data from the study on the analysis of the determinants of firm’s performance in francophone sub-Saharan Africa: the cases of Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal conducted in 2014 with the support of IDRC. The logistic regression analysis reveals that: R&D, size of the firm, and cooperation influence the innovative capacity of firms, but different forms of innovation must be taken into account. We also find that competition significantly influences the capacity of innovation, but that it acts by diminishing the capacity for innovation. Finally, we find that geographical location positively and significantly affects all forms of innovation. These results contribute in the understanding of the innovation phenomenon within agri-food companies.
Author Keywords: Innovation, R&D, agribusiness, SMEs, Cameroon, logistics.
Abstract: (french)
L’objectif de cet article est d’analyser les déterminants de l’innovation au sein des PME agroalimentaires au Cameroun. Notre analyse empirique est basée sur des données de source secondaire, provenant de l’étude sur l’analyse des déterminants de la performance des entreprises en Afrique subsaharienne francophone: cas du Cameroun, de la Côte d’Ivoire et du Sénégal réalisée en 2014 avec l’appui du CRDI. L’analyse de la régression logistique révèle que: La R&D, la taille, la coopération influencent la capacité d’innovation des entreprises, mais qu’il faut tenir compte des différentes formes d’innovation. Nous trouvons aussi que la concurrence influence significativement la capacité d’innovation, mais qu’elle agit en diminuant la capacité d’innovation. En fin, nous trouvons que la localisation géographique affecte positivement et significativement toutes les formes d’innovations. Ces résultats viennent enrichir la compréhension du phénomène d’innovation au sein des entreprises agroalimentaires.
Author Keywords: Innovation, R&D, agroalimentaire, PME, Cameroun, logistique.
How to Cite this Article
Honoré Tekam Oumbe and Charles Bertin Pilag Kakeu, “The determinants of innovation in Cameroonian’s agri-food SMEs,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 230–238, July 2020.
