Product and process innovation and the decision to export: firm-level evidence for Belgium

Ilke Van Beveren and Hylke Vandenbussche

No 2009086, LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)

Abstract: 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

Keywords: exports; product innovation; process innovation; self-selection; firm heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D24 F14 L25 O31 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-12-01
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