Innovation and Economic Performance of Algerian Firms

Recently the innovation activities have rapidly been developed within small and medium- sized enterprises all around the world after a long period where innovation-based activites were undertaken by larger enterprises only. The topic of innovation and economic performance is of greater interest for enterpreuneurs organizations and policy makers; mainly for the reason that Innovation is considered as one of the key conditions for long-run economic growth. The importance of Innovation is finally taking its place in the center of the modern economy. However in the Arab Region generally and in Algeria specifically both research and application are still in their nascent stage; moreover data on innovation activities are missing from the existent literature. This book contains both Macro and Micro data on innovation from the Algerian economy as well as international comparisons between the National Innovation Systems of North African countries.