external demand (2008-2009). Export entrepreneurship is equated with the extensive margin of exports, namely the advent of new …The authors use a new dataset on export transactions for a large set of Latin American and Caribbean and comparator … countries to assess the extent of "export entrepreneurship" during periods of fast export growth (2005-2007) and depressed …

Many policy makers are concerned about dependence on resource exports. This paper examines four changes that reduce …. Developing countries as a group have made enormous progress in diversifying their exports away from resources in recent decades …

among many developing countries. These standards are perceived as a barrier to the continued success of their exports of …

-the-frontier innovations, inside-the-frontier innovations, and export booms. It extends the literature by increasing country coverage and the … negative relationship between the concentration of innovation portfolios and performance: countries that are the most … performance. Furthermore, the search for export booms exhibits the least amount of sectoral concentration and path …

A model of firm innovation illustrates the effects of the threat of imitation and product varieties on a representative … innovation in developing countries? (2) Do trade policies and the national investment climate affect firms' propensity for … product innovation? The econometric evidence suggests that the answers are yes and yes, but the investment climate affects …

changes in the industrial composition of exports. The authors use a simple model of innovation and imitation to test the … hindered by market failures. After identifying stages of diversification in disaggregated export data, the authors develop a … metric for the flows of export "discoveries," or inside-the-frontier innovations in developing countries. They then explore …

not feel pressure (Carlin and others 2001; World Bank 2004). However, competition also appears to affect innovation in … aspects of competition and, consequently, assesses their net impact on innovation. He finds that reducing tariffs and enacting … and enforcing competition laws modestly increases both the pressure that firms feel regarding innovation and the level of …

The author provides a conceptual framework for approaching the promotion of technological innovation and its diffusion … in developing countries. Innovation climates in developing countries are, by nature, problematic, characterized by poor … the promotion of innovation. The latter should be understood as the diffusion of technologies-and related practices …

Studies on innovation and international trade have traditionally focused on manufacturing because neither was seen as … growth. Using a recent firm-level innovation survey for Chile to compare the manufacturing and "tradable" services sector …, this paper reveals some novel patterns. First, although services firms have on average a much lower propensity to export …