The Role of Product Innovation Output on Export Behavior of Firms

Sam Tavassoli

No 2013/38, Papers in Innovation Studies from Lund University, CIRCLE - Centre for Innovation Research

Abstract: This paper analyzes the role of innovation on the export behavior of firms. Using two waves of Swedish CIS data merged with register data on firm-specific characteristics, I estimate the influence of the innovation output of a firm on its export propensity and intensity, respectively. I find that the innovation output of firms (measured as sales due to innovative products) has a positive and significant effect on export behavior of firms. The results also show that it is indeed innovation output, rather than innovation input (innovative efforts), that matters for export behavior of firms. Specifically, innovation output leads to increase in later export propensity and intensity of firms. Moreover, there is also strong association of productivity and ownership structure of firms with export propensity and intensity of firms. The results are robust when unobserved timeinvariant heterogeneity of firm and also potential endogeneity of innovation-export are taken into accounted.

Keywords: Innovation output; innovation input; export propensity; export intensity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 O31 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2013-12-18
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-ino, nep-int, nep-knm, nep-sbm and nep-tid
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