An Investigation of the Effects of Innovation and Government Size on Intra-Industry Trade Based on The Shumpeter's Model

Intra-industry trade has become one of the most important issues of international economy during the last decades. This shows that Iran needs a suitable pattern for improving its commercial relations with the main trading partners and achieving its economic goals. Given the influential contributions of innovation and government size to the production of goods and services at international economy, this article aimed at investigating the non-linear relationship between innovation and intra-industry trade on the one hand, and the relationship between government size and intra-industry trade on the other hand. They have been reported to be the key variables of the linear and logistic transformation models from 2000 to 2015. Results have indicated that there is a non-linear relationship between innovation and intra-industry. The government size variable also increases intra-industry trade and trading partners in both models. Other control variables (GDP per capital, Linder variable and geographical distance) have the expected impacts on intra-industry trade