Intellectual property rights and U.S. information goods exports: the role of imitation threat

Weng, Yungho; Yang, Chih Hai; Huang, Yongqiang

doi:10.1007/s10824-009-9095-1

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“…Note that this is not necessarily inconsistent with learning by exporting: as indicated above, consistent exposure to export markets makes it more likely that hightech SMEs produce new-to-market products, and firms which are already highly innovative may find that an 'export-dipping' approach is appropriate for them at this stage of their lifecycle. This may also be a result of UK high-tech SMEs being concerned (perhaps from past experience) that their innovative product will be easily copied by foreign competitors due to low levels of intellectual property protection that exist in some foreign markets (Smith 2001(Smith , 2002Liu and Lin 2005;Weng et al 2009). This can cause high-tech firms that have a high proportion of radically innovative products in their portfolio to avoid exporting to such countries at least during the early stages of the introduction of such products to the market.…”

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Learning by exporting: Lessons from high-technology SMEs

Love

Ganotakis

2013

International Business Review

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Theory points to the existence of a 'learning by exporting effect', in which exposure to export markets enhances performance through exposure to the knowledge stocks of trading partners. We investigate the learning by exporting hypothesis by examining the effect of exporting on the subsequent innovation performance of UK high-tech SMEs. We find evidence of learning by exporting, but the pattern of this effect is relatively complex. Exporting helps high-tech SMEs innovate subsequently, but does not make them more innovation intensive. There is also evidence that it is consistent exposure to export markets that helps firms overcome the innovation hurdle, but that there is a positive scale effect of exposure to export markets which allows innovative firms to sell more of their new-to-market products on entering export markets. Service sector firms are able to reap the benefits of exposure to export markets at an earlier (entry) stage of the internationalization process than are manufacturing firms. Firms producing a rapidly changing portfolio of innovative products exhibit higher 'churn' in terms of entry to and exit from export markets than low-intensity innovators, and this is reflected in the effects of entry and exit into and out of such markets.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Learning by exporting: Lessons from high-technology SMEs

Love

Ganotakis

2013

International Business Review

194

130

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“…IPP refers to the intensity of protection of industrial intellectual property rights closely related to corporate innovation and competition by enterprises or governments (Weng et al , 2009). Common categories of the intellectual property comprise patents, trademarks, copyrights, design rights and technical or commercial information (trade secrets), among others (Hagedoorn and Zobel, 2015; Zhang et al , 2016).…”

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Distributed innovation, knowledge re-orchestration, and digital product innovation performance: the moderated mediation roles of intellectual property protection and knowledge exchange activities

Tang

Xie²,

Liu³

et al. 2023

JKM

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Purpose Despite the support of digital technology, there is a high degree of ambiguity and fluidity in the boundaries of digital products. This is because the addition of distributed innovation entities has an impact on the scope and scale of digital product innovation. Building upon the knowledge orchestration perspective, this study aims to construct a theoretical model, comprising distributed innovation, knowledge reorchestration and digital product innovation performance, and discuss the moderating roles of intellectual property protection and knowledge exchange activities. Design/methodology/approach Using a sample of 362 Chinese science and technology enterprises, the scholarship’s framework and hypotheses were tested using regression and bootstrap analysis. Findings The results confirm that distributed innovation positively enhances enterprises’ digital product innovation performance; knowledge reorchestration plays a partial mediating role in the linkage amongst distributed innovation and digital product innovation performance; and intellectual property protection and knowledge exchange activities negatively and positively moderate the mediating role of knowledge reorchestration amongst distributed innovation and digital product innovation performance, respectively. Originality/value This empirical scholarship explores the effect mechanism of intellectual property protection, knowledge exchange activities and knowledge reorchestration on the linkage amongst distributed innovation and digital product innovation performance. This paper expands the theoretical application of distributed innovation, knowledge orchestration and other related theories in the context of the digital economy and further provides a policymaking reference for the improvement of enterprises’ digital product innovations.

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“…Previous literature also recognizes the incidences of imitations in the destination country as a threat to export entry from the developed region (Smith 1999(Smith , 2001(Smith , 2002Weng et al 2009). In this study, we use a continuous measure on threat of imitation to test the hypothesis.…”

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confidence: 98%

Capital Goods Export to Developing Economies: Implication from Exporter’s Level of Technology and Destination Country’s Threat of Imitation

Kaharudin

Karim²,

Zaidi³

et al. 2017

JEM

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This article estimates the trade effect of capital goods exports from 19 OECD into 57 developing and emerging economies trade partners for the period 1990 to 2010. The impact of capital goods exports from the OECD countries is assessed using panel gravity model analysis. We examine the possibility of market-power or market-expansion related to capital goods export into the trading partners hypothesized using the intellectual property right (IPR) index, level of exporters' technology and imitation threats in the destination country. Our empirical result shows some consistencies on the evidence of market-expansion effect towards capital goods exports which is directly observed from both exporters' level of technology and destination country's IPR protection level. Indirectly, a diminishing effect on market expansion is observed when conditioned on one interacting variable. We also predict a consistent market-power effect observed from threat of imitation over time.

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Intellectual property rights and U.S. information goods exports: the role of imitation threat

Abstract: IPR, Information goods trade, Threat-of-imitation, F13, O24, Q17, Z11,

Cited by 12 publications

References 27 publications

Learning by exporting: Lessons from high-technology SMEs

Learning by exporting: Lessons from high-technology SMEs

Distributed innovation, knowledge re-orchestration, and digital product innovation performance: the moderated mediation roles of intellectual property protection and knowledge exchange activities

Capital Goods Export to Developing Economies: Implication from Exporter’s Level of Technology and Destination Country’s Threat of Imitation

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