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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
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0048-7333(01)00175-5
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 | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Strategy & International Business Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Research Policy | ||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier BV | ||||
| ISSN: | 0048-7333 | ||||
| Official Date: | September 2002 | ||||
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| 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 | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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