Foreign Trade and Innovation : Evidence from Ukraine

• Autorzy: Daniel Butyter , Małgorzata Wachowska
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The creation and spread of new ideas are considered to be crucial for innovation, and consequently for growth of countries and regions. One of the mechanisms through which knowledge is transferred internationally is foreign trade. In the light of the above, the aim of this paper is to show the relationship between foreign trade and innovation of Ukraine as measured with the number of patent applications in 2004-2013. A correlation method has been used in the paper. Pearson correlation coefficients have been calculated, separately for the relationships between the values of imports and exports of goods and the number of inventions submitted for patent protection by Ukrainian entities. The analysis of Ukrainian data has not confirmed the commonly formulated hypothesis that foreign trade is a carrier for innovativeness. Foreign trade of Ukraine generally has no effect on the improvement of innovation of this country. It is only exports to countries being technological leaders (United States, Japan, Germany) that contribute to improvement in inventiveness of Ukrainian entities, but also in this case the role of foreign trade in increasing innovation in Ukraine can hardly be recognized as significant. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Innovation economy; Foreign trade; Patent

PL

Innowacyjność gospodarki; Handel zagraniczny; Patenty

• Czasopismo: Journal of International Studies
• Rocznik: 2015
• Tom: 8
• Numer: nr 1
• Strony: 173--182

Twórcy

autor

Daniel Butyter

• University of Wrocław, Poland

autor

Małgorzata Wachowska

• University of Wrocław, Poland

Bibliografia

• Aw B., Hwang A. (1995), Productivity and export market: A firm-level analysis, Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 47, no. 2 pp. 313-332.
• Bernard A., Bradford J.J. (1999), Exceptional exporter performance: cause, effect, or both?, Journal of International Economics, Vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 1-25.
• Bitzer J., Geishecker I. (2006), What drives trade-related R&D spillovers? Decomposing knowledge-diffusing trade flows, Economic Letters, Vol. 93, no. 1, pp. 52-57.
• Blind K., Jungmittag A. (2005), Trade and the impact of innovations and standards: the case of Germany and the UK, Applied Economics, Vol. 37, no. 12, pp. 1385-1398.
• Bloom N., Draca M., Van Reenen J. (2011), Trade induced technical change? The impact of Chinese imports on innovation, IT and productivity, NBER Working Paper Series, no. 16717.
• Branstetter L. (2000), Is foreign direct investment a channel of knowledge spillovers? Evidence from Japan's FDI in the United States, NBER Working Paper Series, no. 8015.
• Branstetter L., Sakakibara M. (1998), Japanese research consortia: a microeconometric analysis of industrial policy, Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 207-233.
• Branstetter L., Sakakibara M. (2002), When do research consortia work well and why? Evidence from Japanese panel data, American Economic Review, Vol. 92, no. 1, pp. 143-159.
• Clerides S., Lach S., Tybout J. (1998), Is learning by exporting important? Micro-dynamic evidence from Colombia, Mexico, and Morocco, QQuarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 113, no. 3, pp. 903-948.
• Coe D., Helpman E. (1995), International R&D spillovers, European Economic Review, Vol. 39, no. 5, pp. 859-887.
• De Loecker J. (2007), Product differentiation, multi-product firms and estimating the impact of trade liberalization on productivity, NBER Working Paper Series, no. 13155.
• Dutt P., Traca D. (2010), With whom do you trade? Defensive innovation and the skill-bias, Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 1198-1220.
• Globerman S., Kokko A., Sjöholm F. (1996), Technology sourcing in Swedish MNEs and SMEs: Evidence from patent data, Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance, no. 125.
• Gorodnichenko Y., Svejnar J., Terrell K. (2010), Globalization and innovation in emerging markets, American Economic Journal - Macroeconomics, Vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 194-226.
• Gorodnichenko Y., Svejnar J., Terrell K. (2014), When does FDI have positive spillovers? Evidence from 17 transition market economies, Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 42, no 4, pp. 954-969.
• Hu A.G., Liu Z. (2014), Trade liberalization and firm productivity: Evidence from Chinese manufacturing industries, Review of International Economics, Vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 488-512.
• Jung M. (2004), A study on foreign knowledge spillovers through trade and the growth of labor productivity in the manufacturing sector of Korea, Korea Trade Review, Vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 5-30.
• Kaiser U., Kuhn J.M. (2012), Long run effects of public-private research joint-ventures: The case of the Danish Innovation Consortia support scheme, "Research Policy", Vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 913-927.
• Keller W. (1998), Are international R&D spillovers trade-related? Analyzing spillovers among randomly matched trade partners, European Economic Review, Vol. 42, no. 8, pp. 1469-1481.
• Kolasa M. (2008), How does FDI inflow affect productivity of domestic firms? The role of horizontal and vertical spillovers, absorptive capacity and competition, Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, Vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 155-173.
• Konings J. (2001), The effects of foreign direct investment on domestic firms: Evidence from firm-level panel data in emerging economies, Economics of Transition, Vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 619-633.
• Lee C. (2011), Trade, productivity, and innovation: Firm-level evidence from Malaysian manufacturing, Journal of Asian Economics, Vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 284-294.
• Lichtenberg F., van Pottelsberge de la Potterie B. (1996), International R&D spillovers: a re-examination, NBER Working Paper Series, no. 5668.
• Lin H-L., Lin E.S. (2010), Trade, and product innovation: Theory and evidence, Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 77, no. 2, pp. 434-464.
• Lucas R. (1988), On the mechanics of economic development, Journal of Monetary Economics, no. 22, pp. 3-42.
• Marquez-Ramos L., Martinez-Zarzoso I. (2010), The effect of technological innovation on international trade, Economics-the Open Access Open-Assessment e-Journal, Vol. 4, no. 201011.
• Moskalyk R. (2002), Wplyw widkrytosti technologiczno intensywnoji torgiwli Ukrainy na formuwannja zony wilnoji torgiwli z JeS, Strategiczni Priorytety, Vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 143-150.
• Romer P. (1986), Increasing returns and long-run growth, Journal of Political Economy, no. 94, pp. 1002-1037.
• Rubini L. (2014), Innovation and the trade elasticity, Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. 66, pp. 32-46.
• Sjöholm F. (1999), Exports, imports and productivity: results from Indonesian Establishment data, World Development, Vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 705-717.
• State Service for Intellectual Property of Ukraine, www.uipv.org/ua/archive.
• State Statistics Service of Ukraine, www.ukrstat.gov.ua.
• Van Long N., Raff H., Stähler F. (2011), Innovation and trade with heterogeneous firms, Journal of International Economics, Vol. 84, no. 2, pp. 149-159.
• Zhang Y.A., Li Y., Li H. (2014), FDI spillovers over time in an emerging market: The roles of entry tenure and barriers to imitation, Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 57, no 3, pp. 698-722.

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.14254/2071-8330.2015/8-1/15