, including data on innovation and trade, we find clear sequencing between imports, exports and innovation. The results suggest … to the relevant technological frontier seem to benefit more from trading activities in tfirms of innovation than the …

autoregressive nature of innovation. Using a large longitudinal dataset comprising Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 1990 … in the case of the YICs, suggesting that their innovation behaviour is less persistent and more erratic. Moreover, our … results suggest that firm and market characteristics play a distinct role in boosting the innovation activity of firms of …