This paper investigates the link between innovation and export market participation using Australian small and medium … enterprises (SMEs) data. The results show that export and innovation are positively linked. Depending on the industry and the type … of innovation (process or product), innovation may lead to export and, to a lesser extent, export may lead to innovation …

foreign investment also tend to engage in more product innovation, but not at the same level as the firms that export …To understand the drivers of product innovation at the firm level, I compare the effects of foreign direct investment … (FDI) and exporting on product innovation using a rich firm level database of manufacturing and industrial enterprises. The …

&D, innovation and economic performance, considering the impact of innovation of export success. We develop a simultaneous three … dynamics of innovation and export performance: first, the capacity of firms to translate their R&D efforts in new products …; second, the role of innovation as a determinant of export market shares; third, the export success as a driver of new R …

Innovation and export decisions are closely interlinked. Both activities contribute to firm performance in various ways … knowledge for firms. This study analyzes whether different types of innovation affect export behavior at the firm level for an …, we analyze export intensity by means of Tobit models. We find that innovation fosters export intensity. Overall, the …

This paper explores the inter-connection between domestic firms' product innovation, export, and the presence of FDI …-digit manufacturing industries in China. We find evidence that firms' product innovation is positively correlated with their export … revenue, and the presence of FDI affects firms' product innovation and export behaviour both directly and indirectly (via its …

In this paper, we empirically examine how export pioneers emerge and how they are related to product creators … covers the process from the appearance of product creators as well as product imitators to the emergence of export pioneers …. We find, first, that product imitators are larger, more productive and older than product creators. Second, most export …