-ups from knowledge intensive business service (KIBS) firms with persistent R&D investments have a significantly increased … start in the same firm, indicating the importance of inherited related knowledge. The findings suggest that R&D intensive …

(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 …

This paper asks whether there is evidence of higher innovation output from firms where there is more foreign activity … in terms of foreign direct investments (FDI), trade and collaboration on innovation, or if proximity between innovators … over. There is also support for international knowledge transfer to the local firm from foreign units indicating the …

innovation, regional R&D externalities as well as on agglomeration and urban economies of home and host countries? …

This paper rigorously explores the impact of firm’s collaboration with universities on innovation. Specifically, using … hypotheses that whether academic knowledge has a positive impact on innovative sales and the propensity to apply for patents … average service firm’s innovation sales or propensity to apply for patents. …

recurrent knowledge investment through innovation and potential spillovers from the local milieu. The majority of the exporting … that does not engage in innovation and has scarce access to external knowledge, the level of productivity is 2-12 percent … firms are non-innovative. The data reveal that patent applicants located in knowledge intense milieus account for almost 40 …