Do innovative activities matter to small firms in non-R&amp;D-intensive industries? An application to export performance

Sterlacchini, Alessandro

doi:10.1016/s0048-7333(99)00023-2

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“…More recently, on the micro side, the evidence on the determinants of export decision and export intensity has begun to shed light on the fundamental role of product and process innovation driving the export behaviour at the firm level (Wakelin, 1998;Sterlacchini, 1999;Basile, 2001;Castellani and Zanfei, 2007;Caldera, 2010;Becker and Egger, 2013).…”

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Technology and costs in international competitiveness: From countries and sectors to firms

2015

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This paper examines the determinants of international competitiveness at the level of sectors and firms. First, we address the relation between cost-related and technological competition in a sample of fifteen OECD countries. Results suggest that the countries' sectoral market shares are indeed mainly shaped by technological factors (proxied by investment intensity and patents) while cost advantages/disadvantages do not seem to play any significant role. Next, we attempt to identify the underlying dynamics at the firm level. We do that for a single country, Italy, using a large panel of Italian firms, over nearly two decades. Results show that also at micro level in most sectors investments and patents correlate positively both with the probability of being an exporter and with the capacity to acquire and to increase export market shares. The evidence on costs is more mixed. A simple measure like total labour compensation is positively correlated with the probability of being an exporter, while unit labour costs show a negative correlation only in some manufacturing sectors.

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2015

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“…(Hirsch & Bijaoui., 1985) (Belderbos, 1998). Sterlacchini (Sterlacchini., 1999) states that in investment activities in development of product design and pre-production development efforts lead to export success.…”

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Innovation and Export Competitiveness: Evidence from Georgia Firms

Sikharulidze

Kikutadze²

2017

Eur. j. econ. bus. stud.

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Innovation has long been considered an important factor for creating and maintaining the competitiveness of nations and firms. Consequently, we examine the effect of innovation on export intensity using the Enterprise Surveys from World Bank Group for Georgian firms. Results evolves that the introduction of innovations, and in particular product innovations, is an important driver of export intensity. This study is based on an analysis of research done among 360 firms from Georgia. Firms that intensively involved in the innovation process record the highest export intensity and the magnitude of the impact of innovation on export is sizeable.

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“…Fifth, we matched the observations on the size of the perceived product market to account for firms operating in the international market being more likely to be innovative (MacGarvie 2006;Sterlacchini 1999). We measure this variable using an item on the questionnaire that asked firms to indicate which of four markets (local, regional, national, or international) they perceived to be the largest for their products.…”

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“…To compare start-ups -firms under 5 years of age -with established firms, we use a nearestneighbor matching estimator approach (Czarnitzki 2005;Heckman et al 1997;1999) and control for firm size, growth, R&D expenditure, R&D cooperation, organizational autonomy, market orientation, and industry sector in our estimates. Overall, we find that in services, start-ups are more innovative than established firms, while in manufacturing we do not find a statistically significant difference in innovative performance between start-ups and established firms.…”

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“…This technique enables direct comparisons between startups and established firms in a way that traditional parametric regression techniques do not (Czarnitzki 2005;Heckman et al 1997;1999). When the distribution of covariates differs across the two comparison groups, regression techniques produce biased estimates, where the 5 magnitude of the bias depends on how different the distribution of covariates across the two groups is.…”

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Do innovative activities matter to small firms in non-R&D-intensive industries? An application to export performance

Cited by 210 publications

References 18 publications

Technology and costs in international competitiveness: From countries and sectors to firms

Technology and costs in international competitiveness: From countries and sectors to firms

Innovation and Export Competitiveness: Evidence from Georgia Firms

The elixir (or burden) of youth? Exploring differences in innovation between start-ups and established firms

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