【主题】 Knowledge Absorbing by Exporting: Evidence from Patent Citations in China
【报告人】梁友莎（讲师，浙江大学）
【时间】10月15日（星期二） 15：30-17：00
【地点】经济学院楼401室
【语言】英文
【摘要】 This paper investigates the effects of firms’ exporting status on innovation outcomes by exploring a matched firm-level data on firms’ operation, trade and patenting in China. Using patent-based metrics, we find that access to the foreign markets improves firms’ innovation outcomes. Firms’ exporting to foreign markets not only increases the scale of innovation, but also improves the quality of innovation. We also find that knowledge absorbing effect plays an important role in explaining this phenomenon. By constructing a measurement of knowledge flows, which is based on backward citations, we show that there exists knowledge transfers from destination markets to exporters. Moreover, the knowledge flows absorbing from destination markets help exporting firms to improve their innovation outcomes. This effect is well supported by several evidence. Besides, we show that the well documented scale effect and domestic market competition effect also exist.
【报告人】梁友莎（讲师，浙江大学）
【时间】10月15日（星期二） 15：30-17：00
【地点】经济学院楼401室
【语言】英文
【摘要】 This paper investigates the effects of firms’ exporting status on innovation outcomes by exploring a matched firm-level data on firms’ operation, trade and patenting in China. Using patent-based metrics, we find that access to the foreign markets improves firms’ innovation outcomes. Firms’ exporting to foreign markets not only increases the scale of innovation, but also improves the quality of innovation. We also find that knowledge absorbing effect plays an important role in explaining this phenomenon. By constructing a measurement of knowledge flows, which is based on backward citations, we show that there exists knowledge transfers from destination markets to exporters. Moreover, the knowledge flows absorbing from destination markets help exporting firms to improve their innovation outcomes. This effect is well supported by several evidence. Besides, we show that the well documented scale effect and domestic market competition effect also exist.
