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Innovation and export performance : evidence from the UK and German manufacturing plants

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Roper, Stephen and Love, James H. (2002) Innovation and export performance : evidence from the UK and German manufacturing plants. Research Policy, Volume 31 (Number 7). pp. 1087-1102. doi:10.1016/S0048-7333(01)00175-5 ISSN 0048-7333.

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Abstract

Using comparable plant-level surveys we demonstrate significant differences between the determinants of export performance among the UK and German manufacturing plants. Product innovation, however measured, has a strong effect on the probability and propensity to export in both countries. Being innovative is positively related to export probability in both countries. In the UK the scale of plants’ innovation activity is also related positively to export propensity. In Germany, however, where levels of innovation intensity are higher but the proportion of sales attributable to new products is lower, there is some evidence of a negative relationship between the scale of innovation activity and export performance.

Significant differences are identified between innovative and non-innovative plants, especially in their absorption of spill-over effects. Innovative UK plants are more effective in their ability to exploit spill-overs from the innovation activities of companies in the same sector. In Germany, by contrast, non-innovators are more likely to absorb regional and supply-chain spill-over effects. Co-location to other innovative firms is generally found to discourage 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: Research Policy
Publisher: Elsevier BV
ISSN: 0048-7333
Official Date: September 2002
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September 2002Published
Volume: Volume 31
Number: Number 7
Page Range: pp. 1087-1102
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-7333(01)00175-5
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
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