The Link between Innovation and Export: Evidences from small-sized firms practices

Manon Enjolras (), Mauricio Camargo (), Vincent Boly () and Christophe Schmitt ()
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Manon Enjolras: ERPI - Equipe de Recherche sur les Processus Innovatifs - UL - Université de Lorraine
Mauricio Camargo: ERPI - Equipe de Recherche sur les Processus Innovatifs - UL - Université de Lorraine
Vincent Boly: ERPI - Equipe de Recherche sur les Processus Innovatifs - UL - Université de Lorraine
Christophe Schmitt: CEREFIGE - Centre Européen de Recherche en Economie Financière et Gestion des Entreprises - UL - Université de Lorraine

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Abstract: Numerous publications try to identify and test empirically the link between innovation and export to explain firms' competitiveness. If several ways of thinking coexist without a real consensus, this article proposes a different approach, by considering innovation and export as two complementary activities mobilizing common practices within companies. With a special focus on small-sized companies, this article aims to identify evidences from the ground to explore the synergies between innovation and exportation activities. This research work is based on a methodological approach combining an explorative analysis of the literature, leading to the proposition of a specific theoretical framework as well as an empirical analysis putting forward evidences from small-sized firms' practices. Relying on a set of joint innovation and export practices from our reference framework, we present a cross-case analysis among 11 different innovative and exporting French SMEs in order to identify how the synergistic effect between innovation and export can be shaped.

Keywords: Technological innovation; Companies; Interviews; Conferences; Globalization; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-06-17
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Published in 2019 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC), Jun 2019, Valbonne Sophia-Antipolis, France. pp.1-11, ⟨10.1109/ICE.2019.8792656⟩

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DOI: 10.1109/ICE.2019.8792656

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