Title

Creativity, innovation, and export performance

Department

Business Administration

Document Type

Article

Publication Source

Journal of Policy Modeling

Publication Date

2006-02-01

Volume

28

Issue

2

First Page

133

Last Page

139

Abstract

More and more countries are turning to export promotion as an effective strategy for development. If creative activity facilitates exports, then, in order to enhance exports, it may be worthwhile for a country to focus at least a portion of its energy toward establishing a favorable environment for creativity. This paper hypothesizes that there is a positive relationship between a country's export performance and a country's creative activity. It uses simple cross-country regression analysis to test whether creativity and its four components, innovation, technology, technology transfer, and business startups, have any impact on the total value of a country's exports and on the composition of a country's exports. © 2005 Society for Policy Modeling. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Keywords

Creativity, Export performance, Innovation

DOI

10.1016/j.jpolmod.2005.10.001

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2005.10.001

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