Do Imports Spur Incremental Innovation in the South?

Lu, Yi; Ng, Travis

doi:10.1016/j.chieco.2012.04.005

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“…Imports of Intermediate inputs-Secondly, also contributes to knowledge by showing that the imports of intermediate inputs does not have a significant influence on new product and new process innovations for manufacturing SMEs in Sub-Saharan LDCs. This contributes to the literature on the influence of imports on innovation (Bloom et al, 2015;Lu and Ng, 2012;Paunov, 2011;Bloom et al, 2015;Lu and Ng, 2012;Paunov;Keller, 2002;Xu and Wang, 1999;Keller, 1999;Coe et al, 1997) by being likely the first to empirically examine whether SMEs in Sub-Saharan LDCs that import are more likely to introduce new product and process innovations. 3.…”

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What specific modes of internationalization influence SME innovation in Sub-Saharan least developed countries (LDCs)?

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Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) located in the least developed countries (LDCs), operate in distinctively hostile institutional environments compared to those in developed economies. Better understanding of the determinants of SME innovation in such environments is important for the development of private sector in LDCs, because innovative SMEs are crucial for sustainable economic growth. Yet, determinants of SME innovation in LDCs have hardly been studied. Considering the potential relevance of internationalization for SME innovation in LDCs, as means of overcoming domestic environmental constraints, this paper investigates the influence of foreign technology licensing, exports and imports on SME innovation in LDCs. The study employs data from 1,058 manufacturing SMEs from Sub-Saharan LDCs-Djibouti, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The findings suggest that foreign technology licensing is found to be positively and statistically associated with SME product and process innovations in Sub-Saharan LDCs. Findings are compared with those from developed economies in order to identify distinctive features. The implication is that SMEs in Sub-Saharan LDCs need to be supported by different policies compared to developed economies. The results also show that R&D, firm size, sectoral characteristics and access to finance are important determinants of SME innovation.

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“…The sample period is from 2001 to 2013, and we have 2,234,545 observations of 436,514 manufacturing firms after data cleaning. 35 The matching results are shown in Table C2. 144,100 Notes: Specification 1 is the number of firms in our sample.…”

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“…33 Lu and Ng (2012) also use firm‐level data to show that imports spur incremental innovation in China. …”

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Minimum Wages, Import Status, and Firms' Innovation: Theory and Evidence From China

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This study explores the heterogeneous effects of minimum wage on innovation of different types of firms. We develop an open-economy R&D-based growth model and obtain the following result: raising the minimum wage reduces innovation of firms that use domestic inputs but increases innovation of firms that import foreign inputs. Intuitively, when the minimum wage increases, importing firms substitute labor with imported inputs, which have technology spillovers and enhance their innovation. We test this result using city-level data on minimum wages and firm-level patent data in China. Finally, we find that in accordance with our theory, raising the minimum wage is associated with more innovation by importing firms and less by non-importing firms. This result survives a battery of robustness checks.

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“…On the other hand, exports may also lead Chinese micro-enterprises to be locked at the lower end of the global value chain controlled by developed countries, curbing the improvement of China's ability to innovate independently (Zhang et al, 2007). Regarding import, because the imported goods contain a certain proportion of advanced production equipment and key spare parts with high technical content, it is not only possible to form a complementary effect on the innovation activities of the micro-enterprise sector (learning effect in import), but also possible to produce alternative effects (competitive effects) (Kasahara & Rodrigue, 2008;Lu & Ng, 2012). Whatever the effect of imports on innovation activities is dominant, import factors need to be controlled.…”

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The influence of internal migration on regional innovation in China

Xiao-min

2020

Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja

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Based on panel data from 2002 to 2017 in China, this paper analyses the influence of internal migration on regional innovation. The results show that internal migration not only has a significant promoting effect on improving regional innovation, but also presents a significant spatial agglomeration phenomenon. That is, internal migration has a significant positive impact on regional innovation according to the regression without spatial effects. And although internal migration will promote input of regional innovation, it will also have a negative impact on output of regional innovation. Meanwhile, internal migration will have a significant negative impact on innovation input in adjacent areas, and a significant positive impact on innovation output. Through decomposition, from the input of innovation, the migrant population will have a significant impact on local innovation, but it will also inhibit the innovation input of adjacent regions through indirect effects. Although the migrant population will have a significant negative impact on output of innovation, it will also promote innovation output significantly in adjacent regions through indirect effects, and have a positive impact on the improvement of overall innovation.

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Do Imports Spur Incremental Innovation in the South?

Cited by 19 publications

References 27 publications

What specific modes of internationalization influence SME innovation in Sub-Saharan least developed countries (LDCs)?

What specific modes of internationalization influence SME innovation in Sub-Saharan least developed countries (LDCs)?

Minimum Wages, Import Status, and Firms' Innovation: Theory and Evidence From China

The influence of internal migration on regional innovation in China

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