Knowledge Absorption in the Development of Export Products

Peter Warda () and Börje Johansson
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Peter Warda: Jönköping International Business School (JIBS), and Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies (CESIS) KTH, Sweden, Postal: CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden

No 368, Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation from Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies

Abstract: In this paper we analyze how firms’ knowledge absorption capacity – given the knowledge environment – affects the development, adoption and introduction of new export products among Swedish manufacturing firms. Our model formulation builds on theoretical arguments which imply that firms can influence the usefulness of their knowledge environment by establishing formal and informal networks with input suppliers (especially suppliers of knowledge-intensive business services) and by exploiting their absorptive capacity. The model suggests that the higher the knowledge absorption in firms, the higher the introduction frequency of new export products. In particular, it is the conjunction of a high absorptive capacity and a high external knowledge potential that makes certain firms successful introducers of new export products.

Keywords: Absorptive capacity; innovation; exports; manufacturing; knowledge; Sweden (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D21 D24 F23 L60 R30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2014-08-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-ino, nep-int and nep-knm
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