This article aims to analyze the different impacts that some factors may exert on the probability that an industrial zone-located firm adapts. Recently, industry policy in developing countries tends to spur both SMEs and the industrial zone in terms of adaptation, considering them as the main driver of innovation and growth. However, not all industrial zone-located firms adapt. Departing from an extensive sample of the Vietnam Technology and Competitiveness Survey in combination with the Vietnam Enterprise Survey in 2011-2013, we try to determine those factors that cause firms to become industrial zone-located adaptation SMEs (IA-SMEs, firms fewer than 250 employees, being located in the industrial zone and adapting existing technologies). The analysis results highlight the importance of direct linkages, technology transfer between FDI firms and industrial zone-located adaptation SMEs, economic obstacles, and the interactions between them that cause industrial zone-located adaptation SMEs to adapt in the supply chain (obtained through direct transfer of technology between linked firms).

This article aims to analyze factors affecting the probability that a firm choose to diversify its investment in R& D. Recently, industry policy in developing countries tends to spur SMEs in terms of Research & Development (R& D), considering them as a main driver of innovation and growth. Departing from an extensive sample of the Vietnam Technology and Competitiveness Survey in combination with the Vietnam Enterprise Survey in 2011-2013, we try to determine: (1) those factors that cause young firms to invest in in-house R& D or in outsourced R&D or both (in-house R& D and in outsourced R& D), and (2) what is the difference in the impact of those factors when taking supply-chain foreign direct investment (FDI) linkage, and technology transfer into account. The analysis results highlight the importance of direct linkages, technology transfer between FDI firms and young SMEs, economic obstacles, and the interactions between them that cause SMEs to conduct R& D strategies in the supply chain (obtained through direct transfer of technology between linked firms). Concerning policies must be aware that incentives along supply-chain may better reach the R& D outcomes for SMEs. Important equally, policy-makers must consider a broader range of economic and financial constraint that may influence R& D behavior, apart from export orientation, competitiveness, and market power.

Technology transfer, collaboration, and co-operation in the R&D innovation increase their importance when firms integrate into the world economy, especially along the global supply chain. By using a specially designed sample of 3,253 Vietnamese young small and mediumsized enterprises in 2010-2013, the article examines the impact of technology transfer and R&D collaboration and co-operation on a firm’s R&D innovation input, and innovation output, along the supply chain. The estimation results indicate that technology transfer collaboration and co-operation are complementary during the innovation process, initiating the application of innovation both in terms of input and output. In addition, R&D collaboration and co-operation are complementary in enhancing the innovation output.

This study aims to analyze the effect of black tiger shrimp price and other factors on the shrimp area in the Mekong Delta using the supply response function based on the Nerlovian partial adjustment model. Using quarterly panel data collected from four provinces (Ca Mau, Bac Lieu, Soc Trang, and Kien Giang) for the period of 2014 to 2017, the estimates in the supply response are obtained from Fixed-Effects (FE) method. Results indicate that the adaptive expectation hypothesis to the simple Cobweb model is likely to best fit the data. The estimates of the supply response model show that information used for expected price formation quickly responded in making a decision of black tiger shrimp production. In both the short run and long run, the expected price has a significant effect in directing black tiger shrimp farmers to formulate the supply response decision. The acreage response elasticity is more elastic.