new competence creation as proxied by patent applications and new competence exploitation captured by the frequency of … launching new products on the export market, and overall technical changes captured by total factor productivity growth. We …

We study the relationship between ICT, total factor productivity and export at the firm level in Belgium, France and … the Netherlands. In particular, we look at whether ICT has both a direct effect on export and an indirect effect via … differences in the effects of ICT on export between the three countries. …

In previous research, we analysed the effect of technological innovation, understood as absorptive capacity, on exports …-linear relationship between technological innovation and trade. A natural extension of this research is to use a panel dataset to fully … innovation. In order to do so, in the present paper, we construct a panel dataset including data for 65 countries over the period …

associated with a 1.5 to 2.2 percent increase in international patent collaborations. The evidence found survives the inclusion …