This chapter intends to demonstrate that the Stockholm region is the key centre for knowledge development, innovations … tasks associated with a job. Moreover, the knowledge intensity of an ur-ban region can be related to the absorption capacity … creative ideas and a larger absorptive capacity. This allows the Stockholm region to function as a source of innovation and …

have a larger fraction of skilled workers, higher R&D to sales ratios and established networks to knowledge sources in … several different countries. As illustrated by the so-called ‘anchor-tenant’ hypothesis, they can be described as “knowledge …

In this paper we analyze how firms’ knowledge absorption capacity – given the knowledge environment – affects the … theoretical arguments which imply that firms can influence the usefulness of their knowledge environment by establishing formal … and informal networks with input suppliers (especially suppliers of knowledge-intensive business services) and by …

channel of transferring knowledge from exporting firms to new ventures. …

high-skilled jobs, (ii) belonging to high-tech/knowledge-intensive industries, and (iii) evolving in a more uncertain …