This paper investigates how exporting affects firm innovation. We embed innovation into a firm heterogeneity model with … productivity, where in equilibrium the model shows that exporters invest more in innovation, such as research and development (R … innovation among firms that export processed goods, specifically, those in the electronics sectors, located in coastal provinces …

constraints or the promotion of follow-on innovation. …

This paper investigates whether and how import competition affects firm innovation. Using China’s World Trade … Organization (WTO) accession as a quasi-natural experiment, we find that import competition reduces firm innovation, which is …

I examine the impact of interprovincial trade barrier for intermediate goods on firm innovation in the manufacturing … sector in China over the 2003-2013 period. In particular, I construct a theoretical framework for innovation decisions of …-form regressions, I show that a decrease in interprovincial trade barrier for intermediate goods could indeed encourage firm innovation …

Will export affect corporate innovation? Using comprehensive data from 2002 to 2016, we find that Chinese firms file … firms increase more innovation than their domestic peers. Moreover, the improved innovation is more pronounced amongst firms … more favorable. Our research highlights the positive effect of exporting on corporate innovation …

In this paper, I study the effect of access to markets in high-income countries on firms' product innovation in … point increase in product innovation for privately-owned firms. These effects are induced by the increase in revenue …

more invention patent applications after China’s WTO accession.We alsofind thatfirms’innovation responses to TPU reduction …

emerging economies where high uncertainties are a barrier to innovation. We know from previous studies that linkages to …' innovation in China. Based on a sample of 926 small businesses derived from the World Bank Enterprises Survey in China (2012), we … find that university-industry linkages enhance innovation, though only when it comes to minor forms of innovation. In line …

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 … used to observe their impact on the decision to locate innovation activities in various countries and regions (China …