Innovation, firm productivity, and export survival: firm-level evidence from ASEAN developing countries

Abstract This firm-level study investigates the importance of innovation as a determinant firm productivity and how could impact export survival. is first integration approach, survival approach to explore their linkages at regional level in ASEAN developing countries. Using panel database from World Bank Enterprise Survey, which covers six countries ASEAN—the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar—and also selected industries, we construct four equations: inputs, output, productivity, The equations’ findings suggest that technology sector, size, exports are significant factors for R&D expenditure (innovation input). driver firm’s product process output). Increasing considered driven by rather than innovation, productive firms more likely survive market.