The Impact on Internationalization and Innovation on Firm Productivity

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23683003
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Applied economics
• Research Institution: Senshu University
• Principal Investigator: ITO Keiko 専修大学, 経済学部, 教授 (40353528)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 経済政策 / 輸出 / 海外直接投資 / イノベーション / 生産性 / 研究開発 / 企業成長

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study investigates how international business and innovation activities improve the productivity of firms, using the large-scale firm- or plant-level datasets underlying various government surveys for Japan. The findings are as follows. First, Japanese firms improve their productivity after starting exporting, suggestign the existence of learning by exporting effects. Second, firms with international activities are much more efficient in innovation than firms with only domestic activities. Third, export starters are more likely to add and drop products within a plant than never exporters. Added products tend to have higher product attributes than dropped products, suggesting that these product compositional changes are associated with productivity growth of export starters.

Free Research Field

社会科学・経済学・応用経済学・国際経済学