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 …

reference to knowledge creation and other changes in knowledge assets. This is certainly a bit odd for a period of history often … referred to as the era of the knowledge economy. So, does knowledge have no role to play as a force driving re¬gional spe …¬cialisation and regional development? Or, is it so that the traditional “knowledge free” explanations of changes in regional …

with global, national, regional and local knowledge and innovation dynamics. In the text, we stress the importance to … understand the current changes of the global and their implications for knowledge generation and innovation. Treating knowledge … as a key resource for innovation shifts the focus from the innovation itself to the process of knowledge generation …

and local knowledge and innovation dynamics. In particular, we highlight how the global scene is changing in the … contemporary world economy that we char-acterize as a knowledge economy. We show how knowledge and knowledge dynamics is driving … innovation in the large urban agglomerations in the old and in new industrialized countries with their concentrations of …

. Implementing a dynamic panel data approach on Swedish micro data, we test the separate and complementary effect of innovation and … spillovers from the local milieu. Measuring potential knowledge spillover by access to knowledge intensive services, the … estimation results produce strong evidence of differences in the capacity to benefit from external knowledge among persistent …

-specific Poisson process, is assumed to be influenced by the firm’s past experience and cumulated knowledge assets. The model assigns a … consistent with the model. First, the modeled innovation process imply a persistent distribution of heterogeneous firms. Second …-dependent stochastic innovation process. …

(MNE) firms and concentration in specific places due to agglomerative forces. First, innovation ideas arrive at a faster … speed to firms with past experience of innovation activities and with established export market contacts. Second …, innovativeness is strongly dependent on corporate and ownership structure. Third, the returns to innovation efforts are positively …

innovation, return on R&D and economic performance. The study, based on 1,907 firm level observations, essentially compare a … functional urban region with innovation-proximity characteristics. The paper examines systematically the influence of location … significantly larger likelihood than other firms of being engaged in innovation activities. Second, among innovative firms, the R …

characteristics of the innovation systems at national and regional levels. The paper studies two phenomena. First, what novelties are … brought into the host region (country) when FDI inflows occur? Second, what are the consequences for the innovation intensity … are based on CIS data (Community Innovation Survey III). The paper contributes to earlier studies in two important ways …

ordinary and knowledge labour in production when specifying alternative performance measures and when identifying knowledge … and profitability. To the best of our knowledge, we believe that the main findings of the analysis make contributions to …