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Innovation and Export-Productivity Link in Developing Economies: Evidence from Nigerian Firms

Using Nigeria enterprise survey data in 2007 for 1.891 firms; this study examined (i) productivity differential between exporting and non-exporting firms (ii) productivity differential between innovating and non-innovating firms and (iii) the link between productivity and exporting, as well as the role of innovation in productivity-exporting link. Both parametric and lion-parametric methods were employed in this study. Findings indicated that there is no significant difference between the productivity of exporting and non-exporting firms, while there is significant difference between productiv…