Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
Working Papers,
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Department of Industrial Economics
No 2014/06: Closing the Gap: An Empirical Evidence on Firm’s Innovation, Productivity, and Exports
Sam Tavassoli () and Viroj Jienwatcharamongkhol ()
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Sam Tavassoli: CSIR, Blekinge Inst of Technology, Postal: CITR (Center for Innovation and Technology Research), Department of Industrial Economics, Blekinge Inst of Technology, 371 79 Karlskrona, Sweden
Viroj Jienwatcharamongkhol: Department of Economics, Lund University, Sweden
Abstract: It is well known that exporters are productive firms. But the source of their productivity is left unexplained. This paper aims to endogenize the productivity heterogeneity of exporting firms by incorporating innovation in a structural model framework. In doing so, we close the gap between the innovation-productivity and productivity-export literature. Two waves of Swedish Community Innovation Survey (CIS) are merged. This allows for a setup that takes into account the links from innovation input to innovation output and also from innovation output to productivity and exports. The main findings highlight that exporters are productive firms with innovation output in the past, which in turn was driven by prior R&D and other innovation activity investments.
Keywords: innovation; productivity; export; firm-level; structural model; community innovation survey
28 pages, June 1, 2014
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