Abstract:
Export for any country as the driving force of the economy, is a factor for progress and has many advantages. Export also acts as a channel for technology transfer and knowledge to differentiate products and improve product design ideas. This is an important economic factor, which provides opportunities for the exploitation of successful researches, and increases the incentives for investment in R&D and encourages technical innovation and the development of markets. For this purpose, this study tries to investigate the effects of R&D and human capital on export of Iran in the 1975-2012 period using OLS methods. The results show that R&D has a significant and positive effect on export, so by 1 percent increase of R&D, export increased 0/33 percent. Also, human capital has a positive impact on export. It can be said that by 1 percent increase in the human capital, export increased 0/58 percent.
Machine summary:
Examining the Effects of R&D and Human Capital on Export of Iran Arash Ketabforoush Badri1, Ramin Yahyavi2 and Mostafa Pourebrahim3 Received: 2019/12/10 Revised: 2020/02/07 Accepted: 2020/03/14 ABSTRACT: Export for any country as the driving force of the economy, is a factor for progress and has many advantages.
2. LITERATURE REVIEW Blanchard and Olney (2015) examined the globalization and investment in human capital and its effects on economic growth using a panel of 102 countries and 45 years.
The results of the study show that the costs of research and development and human capital have significant positive effect on exports of information and communication technologies in the country.
The results show that industrial exports and imports of capital lead to the spread of knowledge, science and advanced technology, improve the productivity of factors of production and has created a significant and positive impact on economic growth, but exports of raw materials had no significant effect on economic growth.
These factors include GDP, GDP per capita, an annual growth of GDP, the added value of the industry, agriculture, the number of scientific and technical papers, the share of R&D of GDP, the number of researchers per million inhabitants, the income from the export of advanced technology products, and the costs of public education (Zabihi and Zavvari, 2011, 4).
Table 2 showed the results of the effects of R&D and human capital on export of Iran in the period 1975 to 2012.
The results showed that R&D and human capital development have positive effects on exports.