How Does Technology Import and Export Affect the Innovative Performance of Firms? From the Perspective of Emerging Markets Firms
Table 6
The results of PSM (propensity score matching analysis).
(A) Differences in means in innovation outcomes between Exporters (technology importer) and nonexporters (firms that do not engage in LBTI) for full sample
Variables
Exporter (dummy)
Technology import (dummy)
ATT
t-value
ATT
t-value
Product innovation (dummy)
0.103
2.31
0.287
7.38
Product innovation performance
0.370
1.78
12.21
7.62
Process innovation (dummy)
0.054
1.76
0.153
5.76
Process innovation performance
1.985
2.51
1.519
4.48
(B) Differences in means in innovation outcomes between exporters (technology importer) and nonexporters (firms that do not engage in foreign technology import) across low and high informal competition group
Variables
Exporter
Technology importer
Low informal
High informal
Low informal
High informal
Product innovation (dummy)
0.026
0.248
0.414
0.252
Product innovation performance
3.664
8.200
14.335
12.323
Process innovation (dummy)
0.105
0.048
0.129
0.212
Process innovation performance
7.345
5.629
1.798
12.229
,, and are significantly different from zero at the 10%, 5%, and 1% level, respectively.
