examiners to identify the causal effect of a US patent grant on the subsequent export performance of Chinese firms. Successful … first-time patent applicants achieve significantly higher export growth, compared to otherwise similar first-time applicants … constraints or the promotion of follow-on innovation. …

. The instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is …

in renewable electricity generation as well as increasing renewable energy innovation and foreign knowledge accumulation …, which may drive export performance. We aim at empirically identifying determinants of Chinese solar PV and WETC exports. We … innovation effects steaming from both importing countries and China. We use a panel dataset representing annual bilateral trade …

regional innovation systems and international knowledge flow by using trade data on openness. The study distinguishes between … launching new products on the export market, and overall technical changes captured by total factor productivity growth. We …

endowments, all of which are correlated with export quality innovation …Previous research has documented a strong correlation between countries’ income levels and the quality of their export … goods. Given the evidence of fast unconditional convergence in export quality, this raises the question how to reconcile …

This paper investigates the extent to which international trade hinges onpatents. We analyze the export and patenting … observe export and patenting activities worldwide and at the product level. We exploit how heterogeneity of patent …