Research and Technology policy has been under scrutiny to produce commercially successful innovations. It has been suggested that governments should support this goal by inducing the adoption of new technologies with demand side policies such as public procurement. However, there are several...

This paper studies the effects of local market attributes on local firms’ exports of innovations. Our starting point are three common hypotheses. First, innovations are a major determinant for the export performance of firms. Second, user–producer interaction is an important factor for...