Technology, innovation and SMEs' export intensity: Evidence from Morocco

Mohamed Yacine  Haddoud; Adah-Kole Onjewu; Ned Kock; Vahid Jafari-Sadeghi; Paul Jones

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2023.122475

Technology, innovation and SMEs' export intensity: Evidence from Morocco

Mohamed Yacine Haddoud^*, Adah-Kole Onjewu, Ned Kock, Vahid Jafari-Sadeghi, Paul Jones

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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 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.

Original language	English
Article number	122475
Number of pages	13
Journal	Technological Forecasting and Social Change
Volume	191
Issue number	June 2023
Early online date	17 Mar 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2023.122475
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2023

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Keywords

Foreign technology licensing
R&D
Innovation
Export intensity
SMEs
Morocco

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