Domestic and foreign knowledge as determinants of innovation export

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The quality of a country’s economic growth is mainly determined by the ability and capacity of its companies to create and use new knowledge. Creating new knowledge, companies often have to absorb the external knowledge. Knowledge from sources located in countries with higher levels of technological development can play an important role in narrowing the technological gap with these countries. However, foreign knowledge acquisition, especially when domestic firms’ own knowledge base and absorptive capacity are low, can lead to a technological trap. The study aimed to determine whether changes in the use of in-house and external knowledge from foreign sources occur in the process of creating high-degree novelty innovations by the Russian organizations. The novelty of innovations was defined, on the one hand, as the technological novelty of the new products and services, and on the other hand, as their demand in foreign markets. A multinomial regression model was built, in which different levels of the share of the total value of exports of high technological novelty innovations were considered as the dependent variable. As a result, it was found that the majority of domestic enterprises that exported innovations fell into the trap of imitation. However, a small part of companies in certain regions that contributed most to the value of exports, unlike the majority, relied more on their own knowledge base and successfully integrated foreign knowledge into it. The paper proposes some measures aimed at the development of Russian innovative firms’ own knowledge base.

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S. А. Samovoleva

Central Economics and Mathematics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

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Russian Federation, Moscow

I. N. Shсhepina

Voronezh State University; Central Economics and Mathematics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: shchepina@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Voronezh; Moscow

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