Exporting Innovative Goods and Services: The Moderating Role of Competition and Development of Countries

Nowadays, the main part of countries' economic power has been resulted from acquiring knowledge and applying it to produce innovative up to date products in order to gain competitive advantages in domestic and foreign markets. One of the effective elements for achieving such a goal is knowledge workers. The purpose of this study is investigating the effect of knowledge workers on the innovative goods and services exports with considering the moderating effect of competition in developed and developing countries from 2011 to 2016. Data of selected sample countries has been extracted from the Global Innovation Index reports. The panel method is used by applying Eviews software. The results showed that not only knowledge workers have positive and significant impact on export of innovative goods and services of those countries, but also in both of developed and developing countries, competition plays a moderating role on the relation between knowledge workers and exporting innovative goods and services.