How import integration changes firms’ decisions to innovate

This paper examines how Russian manufacturing firms pursue technology innovation in response to imports. The research is based on the data from two surveys of manufacturing companies performed in 2005 and 2009. The findings show beneficial effects of importing on innovation. Previous involvement in...

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Published in:The Annals of regional science 2018-05, Vol.60 (3), p.501-528
Main Authors: Gonchar, Ksenia, Kuznetsov, Boris
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Companies
Competition
Decisions
Economics
Economics and Finance
Environmental Economics
Geography
Growth models
Imports
Innovations
International trade
Knowledge
Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
Manufacturing
Market shares
Microeconomics
Position (location)
Productivity
R&D
Regional/Spatial Science
Research & development
Special Issue Paper
Tariffs
Technological change
Technology
Trade liberalization
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Summary:This paper examines how Russian manufacturing firms pursue technology innovation in response to imports. The research is based on the data from two surveys of manufacturing companies performed in 2005 and 2009. The findings show beneficial effects of importing on innovation. Previous involvement in the importation of equipment and intermediates leads to future innovation, and there is evidence of simultaneous choice in favour of imports and innovation in case of manufacturing equipment. The learning effects from importing seem to be higher for product than for process innovation. The decisions of firms to invest in innovation and to import are sensitive to their location, technology position, pressure from import competition, and their efforts to conduct R&D in addition to importing embodied knowledge.
ISSN:0570-1864
1432-0592
DOI:10.1007/s00168-015-0697-6