Abstract: This paper makes an attempt to find the relationship between innovation indicators and export performance of the country. We used patents, trademarks, industrial design, number of scientific journals, R&D expenditures as indicators of innovativeness of the country. As a sample we have constructed unbalanced panel data for 48 Asian countries with time series from 1997 to 2011. After OLS regression we found that only innovativeness indicator which positively associated with export performance is a number of registered industrial design in the country. The rest of innovativeness indicators did not show any significant relationship with export performance of the country.
Keywords: innovation, export, FDI, trademarks, patents, R&D
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