The Impact of R&D Activities on Exports of German Business Services Enterprises: First evidence from a continuous treatment approach

Alexander Vogel and Joachim Wagner ()

No 293, Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation from Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies

Abstract: This study uses newly available representative data from German business services firms and a continuous treatment approach based on the generalized propensity score to test for a causal effect of R&D activities (measured by the share of engineers and natural scientists in all employees) on the share of exports in total sales. We find evidence for a positive and statistically significant but small causal effect. This result is in line with the (non-causal) results reported in Vogel and Wagner (2012) based on regression models with and without control for unobserved time-invariant firm characteristics. The bottom line, then, is that R&D activity does matter for success of German business services firms on export markets – but not much.

Keywords: Innovation; export; business services; Germany (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2012-12-19
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