A Journal of University-Industry-Government Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Table 3 Latent factors to barriers to innovation (government)
From: Barriers to innovation: the case of Ghana and implications for developing countries
Number of Factor | Name of Factor | Variables | Factor Loading | Cronbach’s Alpha | Total Varience Explained | KMO | Bartlets Test of Sphericity | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chi Squared | Df | Significance | |||||||
1 | Constrained Human Capital Resources | * Quality of Technically Trained Manpower | 0.873 | 0.798 | 26.75 | 0.551 | 317.755 | 136 | 0.000 |
* Lack of Technically Trained Manpower | 0.833 | ||||||||
* Lack of Information (Knowledge Gap) | 0.622 | ||||||||
* Restrictive Public / Governmental Regulations | 0.579 | ||||||||
2 | Unsophisticated Markets | * Lack of Demanding Customers | 0.935 | 0.826 | 14.152 | ||||
* Lack of Innovative Customers | 0.822 | ||||||||
3 | Organisational Risks | * Excessive Percieved Economic Risk | 0.791 | 0.532 | 10.669 | ||||
* Organisational Rigidities | 0.693 | ||||||||
4 | Constrained ICT Stocks & Flows | * Rate of Access to ICT | −0.809 | 0.818 | 9.028 | ||||
* ICT Capacity | −0.799 | ||||||||
* Hierachical Organisations | −0.794 | ||||||||
* Brain Drain | −0.651 | ||||||||
5 | (THIS FACTOR IS NOT RELIABLE AND HENCE NOT NAMED) | * Lack of Higher Resolution Regulations | 0.684 | −0.08 | 6.784 | ||||
* Lack of Competition | −0.578 | ||||||||
6 | (THIS FACTOR IS NOT RELIABLE AND HENCE NOT NAMED) | * Lack of Finance | 0.836 | 0.458 | 6.202 | ||||
* Innovations Costs (Too High) | 0.599 | ||||||||
Cumulative Total (CTVE) | 73.585 | ||||||||