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Technology, innovation and SMEs' export intensity: Evidence from Morocco
Mohamed Yacine Haddoud,
Ned Kock,
Adah-Kole Emmanuel Onjewu,
Vahid Jafari-Sadeghi,
Paul Jones 
Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume: 191, Start page: 122475
Swansea University Author:
Paul Jones
DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.techfore.2023.122475
Abstract
This study seeks to understand the scarcely examined relationships between SMEs' foreign technology licensing, R&D expenditure, innovation and export intensity. Espousing an integrated open innovation and self-selection paradigm, observations of 446 Moroccan SMEs are analysed through struct...
| Published in: | Technological Forecasting and Social Change |
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| ISSN: | 0040-1625 |
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Elsevier BV
2023
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63003 |
| Abstract: |
This study seeks to understand the scarcely examined relationships between SMEs' foreign technology licensing, R&D expenditure, innovation and export intensity. Espousing an integrated open innovation and self-selection paradigm, observations of 446 Moroccan SMEs are analysed through structural equation modelling. The definitive path analysis showed that foreign technology licensing and R&D expenditure distinctively affect innovation and, in turn, innovation increases export intensity. In further insights, to illustrate how the distribution of these inputs enhances internationalisation, a probabilistic analysis shows that foreign technology licensing, R&D expenditure and innovation will incrementally stimulate export intensity by >71 %. The permutations of these variables in the fresh setting of Morocco summon scholars' empirical attention at the same time as policymakers' consideration. |
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| Keywords: |
Foreign technology; licensing; R&D; Innovation; Export intensity; SMEs; Morocco |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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122475 |