This paper analyzes the type of dependence, degree and direction of the link between innovation and export activity of enterprises in Russia. To deal with this problem both «self-selection» and «learning-by-export» hypotheses were tested on real statistical data by the means of probit-model...

The paper investigates the phenomenon of persistence in innovation and factors that determine it. Using a database of 860 Russian patents Kaplan–Meier estimators, showing the percentage of firms that are persistent in innovations at a particular time, are computed. Based on the three forms of...