{"id":8825,"date":"2022-07-27T06:34:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T06:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depocen.org\/publications\/innovation-and-export-of-vietnams-sme-sector\/"},"modified":"2022-07-27T06:34:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T06:34:29","slug":"innovation-and-export-of-vietnams-sme-sector","status":"publish","type":"publications","link":"https:\/\/depocen.org\/en\/publications\/innovation-and-export-of-vietnams-sme-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation and Export of Vietnam&#8217;s SME Sector."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Innovation has long been considered an important factor for creating and maintaining<br \/>\nthe competitiveness of nations and firms. Common knowledge stands that innovation<br \/>\nis the cause of the increase of exports. However, contradicting empirical evidences are<br \/>\nreported in the literature on the causality between innovation and export. In this paper<br \/>\nwe examine whether innovation performed by small and medium enterprises (SMEs)<br \/>\nenhances their exporting likelihood in the context of a developing country of Vietnam.<br \/>\nUsing an uniquely rich Vietnamese SMEs database, we find that innovation as<br \/>\nmeasured directly by &#8216;new products&#8217;, &#8216;new production process&#8217; and &#8216;improvement of<br \/>\nexisting products&#8217; are important determinants of exports by Vietnamese SMEs. We<br \/>\nadd to the current literature by examining modification of existing products as an<br \/>\ninnovation activity. We also find evidence of endogeneity of innovation that may lead<br \/>\nto biased estimate of innovation in previous studies, which failed to take this problem<br \/>\ninto account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","cate_publications":[],"author_publications":[1546,1548,1573,1575,1628,1629,1630,1631],"topic_publications":[],"class_list":["post-8825","publications","type-publications","status-publish","hentry","author_publications-ngoc-q-pham","author_publications-ngoc-q-pham-en","author_publications-anh-ngoc-nguyen","author_publications-anh-ngoc-nguyen-en","author_publications-chuc-dinh-nguyen","author_publications-nhat-duc-nguyen","author_publications-chuc-dinh-nguyen-en","author_publications-nhat-duc-nguyen-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depocen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications\/8825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depocen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depocen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publications"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depocen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cate_publications","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depocen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cate_publications?post=8825"},{"taxonomy":"author_publications","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depocen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author_publications?post=8825"},{"taxonomy":"topic_publications","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depocen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic_publications?post=8825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}