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Innovation and Export Performance: Evidence from UK and German Manufacturing Plants

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Roper, S.
Love, J.E.

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Using comparable plant-level surveys we demonstrate significant differences between the determinants of export performance among UK and German manufacturing plants. Innovation, however, measured has a strong and systematic effect on the probability and propensity to export in both countries.

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Paper provided by Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland in its series Working Papers NIERC. with number 62.

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Date of creation: 2001
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Keywords: INNOVATIONS ; TRADE;

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O31 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
O32 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
F10 - International Economics - - Trade - - - General

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