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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 Orcid Logo

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume: 191, Start page: 122475

Swansea University Author: Paul Jones Orcid Logo

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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...

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Published in: Technological Forecasting and Social Change
ISSN: 0040-1625
Published: Elsevier BV 2023
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description 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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