voprecotestВопросы экономикиVoprosy Ekonomiki0042-8736Voprosy Ekonomiki, NP10.32609/0042-8736-2020-2-125-140voprecotest-2667Research ArticleЭКОНОМИКА ПРЕДПРИЯТИЙENTERPRISE ECONOMICSУченые на российских промышленных предприятиях: экспорт, распространение знаний и публикационная активностьAcademics in manufacturing companies: Empirical analysis of publication activity and export qualityhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2405-8106ФедюнинаА. А.FedyuninaAnna A.

Федюнина Анна Андреевна, к. э. н., в. н. с. Центра исследований структурной политики НИУ ВШЭ

Москва

Moscow

afedyunina@hse.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2171-3582ГеринаЯ. Я.GerinaYana Y.

Герина Яна Ярославовна, студент 

Бонн

Bonn

yanagerina@wdata.mehttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5574-3536АверьяноваЮ. В.AveryanovaYuliya V.

Аверьянова Юлия Вадимовна, стажер-исследователь Международной лаборатории экономики нематериальных активов НИУ ВШЭ

Санкт-Петербург

St. Petersburg

javeryanova@hse.ruНациональный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики»РоссияHSE UniversityRussian FederationБоннский университетГерманияBonn Graduate School of EconomicsGermany20200702202002125140Copyright © Voprosy Ekonomiki, NP, 20202020Voprosy Ekonomiki, NPVoprosy Ekonomiki, NPhttps://www.vopreco.ru/jour/about/submissions#copyrightNoticehttps://www.vopreco.ru/jour/article/view/2667

В работе впервые в эмпирической литературе показано, что наличие в фирме академических (публикующихся) исследователей независимо от их участия в научно-исследовательской деятельности в компании отражает навыки фирмы обучаться и получать новые знания или, иначе, абсорбционную способность. Предполагается, что именно более высокий уровень абсорбционной способности представляет собой механизм, определяющий влияние ученых на производительность фирмы. Тестируется также гипотеза о том, что в товарном пространстве происходит межфирменное распространение знаний: фирмы со схожей товарной структурой производства с большей вероятностью также будут нанимать ученых. Гипотезы тестируются на примере выборки малых и средних российских фирм-экспортеров, для которых особенно важна абсорбционная способность.

This paper shows, for the first time in empirical literature, that the presence of employees from academia in the firm, regardless of their participation in the firm’s research activities, reflects the skills of the firm to learn and acquire new knowledge or, put differently, its absorptive capacity. It is assumed that the higher absorptive capacity act as a mechanism that determines the impact of scientists on the productivity of the firm. The hypothesis that there is an inter-firm diffusion of knowledge in the commodity space is also being tested: firms with similar commodity structures are more likely to hire scientists. Hypotheses are tested on the example of a sample of small and medium-sized Russian firms-exporters, for which absorptive capacity is particularly important.

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