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

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

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2023.122475

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

Mohamed Yacine Haddoud^*, Ned Kock, Adah-Kole Emmanuel Onjewu, 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
Early online date	17 Mar 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2023.122475
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2023

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

Keywords

Export intensity
Foreign technology licensing
Innovation
Morocco
R&D
SMEs

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