Exploring the complementarity between innovation and export for SMEs’ growth

By E. Golovko, Giovanni Valentini. 2011

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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SMEs' internationalisation: When does innovation matter? (2019, background): “According to Golovko and Valentini (2011), although different modes of internationalisation, such as foreign direct investment and exporting, are available to SMEs,”
SME innovation, exporting and growth: A review of existing evidence (2015, background): “Possibly, the most relevant research is on 1400 Spanish SMEs over a 10-year period, which specifically seeks to assess whether innovation and exporting are complementary for sales growth (Golovko and Valentini, 2011).”
Internationalization Orientation in SMEs: The Mediating Role of Technological Innovation (2019, background): “Furthermore, these studies have mainly focused on the innovation activities of exporting SMEs and have not analyzed the relationship between the IO of SMEs, innovation behaviour and firm performance (Cho and Pucik, 2005; Cohen and Klepper, 1996; Golovko and Valentini, 2011).”
Greasing the Wheels of Change: Bribery, Institutions, and New Product Introductions in Emerging Markets (2019, unknown): “Moreover, given the strong complementarity between firm innovation and exports (Golovko & Valentini, 2011) I include a dummy (exporter) control for exporting firms.”
Networks, Entrepreneurial Orientation, and Internationalization Scope: Evidence from Chilean Small and Medium Enterprises (2015, background): “Exporting may promote firm learning, and thus, enhance innovative performance (Golovko and Valentini 2011).”
Innovation with Limited Resources: Management Lessons from the German Mittelstand (2018, background): “Supporting this argument, German SMEs—and in particular Mittelstand firms—have been shown to lead in exports both within and outside the EU, surpassing the average in proportion to firms exporting within the EU (20% vs. 14% EU average for SMEs; European Commission, 2014a) and accounting for nearly 2”
A multidimensional perspective of SME internationalization speed: The influence of entrepreneurial characteristics (2019, background): “A positive relationship between innovation and exporting among SMEs has been widely reported (Golovko & Valentini, 2011; Love & Roper, 2015).”
How do marketing, research and development capabilities, and degree of internationalization synergistically affect the innovation performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)? A panel data study of Chinese SMEs (2015, background): “R&D capability in particular has emerged as a central theme in the international new ventures and rapid internationalization literature and is seen as a strategically important source of competitive advantage (Filatotchev & Piesse, 2009; Golovko & Valentini, 2011; Knight & Cavusgil, 2004).”