defence firms will progressively become more efficient, less dependent on public procurement and innovation policy support … an increase in the industry’s export propensity and a less concentrated market. …

Innovation has long been considered an important factor for creating and maintaining the competitiveness of nations and … firms. The relationship between innovation and exporting has been investigated for many countries. However, there is a … paucity of research in Vietnam with respect to this issue. In this paper we examine whether innovation performed by Vietnam …

The paper investigates the relationship between firms’ international cooperation strategies and export decision. It … information on the internationalization activities of 814 Norwegian firms in the service sectors for the period 2004-2006. The … factor to foster the firms’ decision to enter the export market. …

, Melitz and Yeaple, 2004). The idea is that innovation will have two main effects on service firms’ choice between exports and …This paper introduces service innovation in the proximity-concentration trade-off model of trade and FDI (Helpman …, innovators will have to pay a higher relational distance cost for undertaking export activities, and they will therefore prefer …

tends to allow firms to export more. But very little is known about the heterogeneous impacts of innovation on exports …A growing number of studies that look at the relationship between innovation and exports find that more innovation … needs to innovate to raise its exports. Using data from Chile, we combine information on innovation activities at the firm …

In an effort to shed some light on the larger question of labor standardsvand globalization, we seek to examine …-level indica tors. First, we use the plant's export orientation as one measure of international competition. Second, we use the … higher wages. This framework provides a direct test of the relationship between meas ures of globalization and labor …