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Fostering Technology Absorption in Southern African Enterprises
What is the share (%) of new product that you have introduced in the past three years in your total exports in FY2007?
What else affected your decision to enter this market?
Did you have personal or family connections to anyone who helped you enter this market? (Yes/No)
How do you forecast your exporting will change in the next 5–10 years? Do you anticipate that you will have a larger/smaller share of the global market than currently? Are you planning to occupy the same market value niche in the future or do you anticipate that that will change? Are you planning to enter new global markets?
Is your firm more or less export oriented than your competitor firms in the domestic market? To what do you ascribe the difference, if any?
B. The next set of questions relates to the constraints and difficulties of exporting.
What are the main costs entailed in exporting? How do you finance these costs?
What channels do you use to access your main export markets? (own office abroad, foreign intermediaries, direct to end user)
Who are your primary competitors in your main export markets?
What is your competitive edge over these competitors?