Similar Search Results

Clusters, Functional Regions and Cluster Policies

Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

This paper gives an overview of research on economic clusters and clustering and is motivated by the growing intellectual and political interest for the subject. Functional regions have the features that agglomeration of economic activities i.e. clusters, benefit from. Functional regions have...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644967

The Creative Class or Human Capital? - explaining regional development in Sweden

Mellander, Charlotta; Florida, Richard - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

Human capital is observed to be an important contributor to growth but unevenly distributed geographically. While there is consensus on the importance of human capital to economic development, debate takes shape around two central issues. First, there is the question of how best to measure human...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419305

Human Capital in Cities and Suburbs

Stolarick, Kevin; Mellander, Charlotta; Florida, Richard - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

Research on human capital generally focuses on the regional level, and neglects the relative effects of its distribution between center cities and surrounding suburbs. This research examines the effects of this intra-metropolitan distribution on economic performance. The findings indicate that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421774

The location of new firms - Influence of commuting behaviour

Backman, Mikaela; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2015

In this paper, we analyse where people who become self-employed actually start their firms. In the entrepreneurship literature, it is generally assumed that individuals who start a firm start it where they live. We question this general assumption and show that this does not hold for commuters....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273264

Inside the Black Box of Regional Development - human capital, the creative class and tolerance

Florida, Richard; Mellander, Charlotta; Stolarick, Kevin - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

While there is a general consensus on the importance of human capital to regional development, debate has emerged around two key issues. The first involves the efficacy of educational versus occupational measures (i.e. the creative class) of human capital, while the second revolves around the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644955

Cross-country difference in R&D productivity Comparison of 11 European economies

Lööf, Hans; Savin, Maxim - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

the argument that innovation systems are important for an industry’s capacity to generate new patentable knowledge. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010741441

Patenting and Entrepreneurial Spawning: An Innovation Strategy Approach

Lööf, Hans; Nabavi, Pardis; Bazzazian, Navid - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

This paper analyzes how different innovation-strategies of incumbent firms affect the quality of their entrepreneurial … files for the period 1997-2008, three types of incumbent firms are distinguished: firms that are engaged in innovation … new firm can be linked back to the innovation strategy of the parent firm. In contrast, there is strong evidence that …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010742110

The Inventive, the Educated, and the Creative: How Do They Affect Metropolitan Productivity?

Lobo, José; Mellander, Charlotta; Stolarick, Kevin; … - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

stages. First, an invention or innovation is generated, and then it is developed and commercialized to create benefits for … innovation inputs to processes that generate regional productivity and productivity gains. We also find that the most effective …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421775

Josh Lerner: Recipient of the 2010 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research

Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Parker, Simon - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010

venture capital, innovation and entrepreneurship has greatly extended and improved our understanding of one of the major … and organization of the venture capital industry. Later, his most important publications on entrepreneurship, innovation …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008483922

PRODUCT INNOVATION, EXPORT AND LOCATION OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Andersson, Martin; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2006

destination. In the empirical analysis we examine how the arrival of innovation ideas varies across regions and how this variation …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644959