This paper aids our understanding of the link between innovation and exporting behavior by detailing how firms may … purposefully decide on the source country for the imported innovation and the market that they ultimately serve. We argue that … 1998-2001, suggest the existence of positive and highly significant effect of spending on new technology on the export …

exogenous to firms' export performance. We find that innovation attributable to this variation leads to an increase of roughly …Trade and growth theories predict a mutual causation of innovation and exports. We test empirically whether innovation … seven percentage points in the export share of German manufacturing firms. The evidence is robust to several alternative …

exogenous to firms' export performance. We find that innovation attributable to this variation leads to an increase of roughly 7 …Trade and growth theories predict a mutual causation of innovation and exports. We test empirically whether innovation … percentage points in the export share of German manufacturing firms. The evidence is robust to several alternative specifications …

A firm’s export status may improve its capacity of introducing product innovations. We explore this idea using very … rich firm-level data on Italian Manufacturing, and sector-province specific measures of firms’ distance from export markets … and of their export market potential as instruments for differences in export activities. We find that exporting …

. Both modes of innovation are expected to raise a firm's propensity to export. According to new trade theory, we conjecture …This paper provides an empirical analysis of the effects of new product versus process innovations on export propensity … at the firm level. Product innovation is a key factor for successful market entry in models of creative destruction and …