In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only … branches. Moreover, allowing for simultaneity we find that export activities do not enforce innovation activities. …

used to observe their impact on the decision to locate innovation activities in various countries and regions (China …This paper aims to shed light on firm specific drivers that lead firms to internationalise their innovation activities …’s competitive environment and the influence of innovation obstacles in the home country. In particular, the role of the potential …

Export is an important factor to improve growth and welfare especially for industrialized small, open economies such as … Belgium. Policy may be interested in key variables that can influence export. This paper finds evidence for the importance of … R&D for export activities using Belgian firm-level data. To control for reverse causality, R&D-subsidy variables are …

in their expectations that the Euro will increase export activity and product innovation, but significantly more East … entering new markets and developing new products is stronger for firms which already export than for those who do not. Further …

This paper analyses the relationship between firm productivity and export behavior in German manufacturing firms. We …-productivity firms self-select themselves into export markets, while exporting itself does not play a significant role for productivity …

domestic market, better performers engage in export activities, and the top firms establish foreign subsidiaries. Using German …

Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It … to nearly all empirical studies on the relationship between productivity and exports we do not find any evidence for … selfselection of more profitable firms into export markets. Due to the sampling frame of the data used we cannot test the hypothesis …

investigate the relationship between exports and productivity. Our overall results are in line with the big picture that is by now … controlled for, and these exporter productivity premia tend to increase with the share of exports in total sales; there is strong … evidence in favour of self-selection of more productive firms into export markets, but nearly no evidence in favour of the …