Product and Process Innovation and the Decision to Export: Firm-level Evidence for Belgium

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Using data from the Community Innovation Survey for Belgium in two consecutive periods, this paper explores the relationship between firm-level innovation activities and the propensity to start exporting. To measure innovation, we include indicators of both innovative effort (R&D activities) as well as innovative output (product and process innovation). Our results suggest that the combination of product and process innovation, rather than either of the two in isolation, increases a firm's probability to enter the export market. After controlling for potential endogeneity of the innovation activities, only firms with a sufficiently high probability to start exporting engage in product and process innovation prior to their entry on the export market, pointing to the importance of self-selection into innovation.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: LICOS Discussion Paper ; No. 247

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity ; Empirical Studies of Trade ; Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope ; Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives ; Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
• Thema: Exports ; Product innovation ; Process innovation ; Self-selection ; Firm heterogeneity ; Innovation ; Betriebliche Forschung ; Exportindustrie ; Industrie ; Belgien

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Van Beveren, Ilke ; Vandenbussche, Hylke
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance
• (wo): Leuven
• (wann): 2009

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/74964
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ