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Learning by exporting : lessons from high-technology SMEs

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Love, James H. and Ganotakis, Panagiotis (2013) Learning by exporting : lessons from high-technology SMEs. International Business Review, Volume 22 (Number 1). pp. 1-17. doi:10.1016/j.ibusrev.2012.01.006

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Abstract

We investigate the learning by exporting hypothesis by examining the effect of exporting on the subsequent innovation performance of a sample of high-technology SMEs based in the UK. We find evidence of learning by exporting, but the pattern of this effect is complex. Exporting helps high-tech SMEs innovate subsequently, but does not make them more innovation intensive. There is evidence that consistent exposure to export markets helps firms overcome the innovation hurdle, but that there is a positive scale effect of exposure to export markets which allows innovative firms to sell more of their new-to-market products on entering export markets. Service sector firms are able to reap the benefits of exposure to export markets at an earlier (entry) stage of the internationalization process than are manufacturing firms. Innovation-intensive firms exhibit a different pattern of entry to and exit from export markets from low-intensity innovators, and this is reflected in different effects of exporting.

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Strategy & International Business
Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Journal or Publication Title: International Business Review
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 0969-5931
Official Date: February 2013
Dates:
DateEvent
February 2013Published
18 February 2012Available
24 January 2012Accepted
16 May 2011Submitted
Volume: Volume 22
Number: Number 1
Page Range: pp. 1-17
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2012.01.006
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access

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