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JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
卷 144, 期 -, 页码 1305-1319出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.01.045
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SMEs; Internationalisation; Innovation; Knowledge-based institutions; Levels of development
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This study explores the importance of foreign technology licensing, exporting, and importing for SME innovation in developing economies, finding that the effects vary depending on the country's level of economic development. It also reveals a positive association between foreign technology licensing and innovation.
Given the potential of internationalisation for overcoming constraints in the domestic knowledge and technology of developing economies and thus enabling SME innovation, this study investigates the importance of foreign technology licensing, exporting, and importing for SME innovation in developing economies at different levels of development. Using the lens of institutional theory and the levels of development model, we examine samples of SMEs in the factor-driven economies of Sub-Saharan Africa and the efficiency-driven economies of various European and Central Asian post-socialist countries. Our results suggest that the effects of 'importing' and 'exporting' on SME innovation strongly depend on the level of the country's economic development. We also find a positive association between foreign technology licensing and innovation; the effect is stronger in the SubSaharan factor-driven economies than in efficiency-driven economies.
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