Entry into Export Markets as an Incentive to Innovate. Evidence from the Russian Manufacturing Industry Survey

Victoria Golikova, Ksenia Gonchar and Boris Kuznetsov

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Abstract: This paper examines how export and export destination stimulates innovation by Russian manufacturing firms. The discussion is guided by the theoretical models for heterogeneous firms engaged in international trade which predict that, because more productive firms generate higher profit gains, they are able to afford high entry costs, and trade liberalization encourages the use of more progressive technologies and brings higher returns from R&D investments. We will test the theory using a panel of Russian manufacturing firms surveyed in 2004 and 2009, and use export entry and export destinations to identify the causal effects on various direct measures of technologies, skill and management innovations. We find evidence on exporters’ higher R&D financing, better management and technological upgrades. Exporters, most noticeably long-time and continuous exporters, are more active in monitoring their competitors, both domestically and internationally, and more frequently employ highly qualified managers. Exporters are more active in IT implementation. When it comes to export destination, we find that non-CIS exporters are more prone to learning. However, we cannot identify that government or foreign ownership shows any impact on learning-by-exporting effects.

Keywords: innovation; export; export destination; learning effects. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 O31 O33 P23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2011
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Published in WP BRP Series: Economics / EC, December 2011, pages 1-30

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