IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijgsbu/v5y2013i4p256-272.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Innovation activities and Italian SMEs' exports decisions: a multi-treatment analysis

Author

Listed:
  • Piergiuseppe Morone
  • Francesco Renna
  • Giuseppina Testa

Abstract

This study aims at estimating the effect of innovation on export growth for a sample of Italian small and medium size manufacturing firms. We define two classes of innovation, namely technological and non-technological. For each class of innovation, we use a propensity score matching strategy to assess if innovating in period t - 1 led to an increase in firms' probability of seeking for new exporting markets in period t + 1. Moreover, we assess the combined effect of both classes of innovation upon the probability of seeking for new markets. We found that both technological and non-technological innovations increases the probability that a firm will plan to look for new markets abroad, the former type of innovation being, on average, twice as relevant as the latter. Moreover, we found evidence that these are complementary activities, which are more effective on future exports decisions when combined.

Suggested Citation

  • Piergiuseppe Morone & Francesco Renna & Giuseppina Testa, 2013. "Innovation activities and Italian SMEs' exports decisions: a multi-treatment analysis," International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 5(4), pages 256-272.
  • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijgsbu:v:5:y:2013:i:4:p:256-272
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=56810
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijgsbu:v:5:y:2013:i:4:p:256-272. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=37 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.