What national policies are most efficient in promoting the commercialization of university-generated knowledge? We …

This paper investigates the role of knowledge in the evolution of new financial services ventures in Sweden between … 1990 and 2002. Drawing upon economic theories of human capital and spin-out entrepreneurship, we investigate if knowledge … knowledge from the financial services and high-tech sectors have higher chances of survival than firms with more narrow …

trial-and-error and learning by consuming. The key question that is addressed is: how do consumers deal with innovation? By … bringing together a number of threads within the innovation literature my claim is that consumers, akin to firms, follow …

national innovation systems. The study also analyses the factors behind this industry's poor productivity growth. A scenario …

widely recognized that the supply of entrepreneurial talent is likely to be important for economic growth, innovation and job …

. The business services industry has an important role in the national innovation system and in knowledge spillovers to … other industries. The innovation contribution of business services to the rest of the economy may countervail the effect of … strengthening its role in knowledge spillovers to client industries. …

geographically and function-ally. They promoted rapid innovation by resorting to systematic Research and Development ef- forts. And … innovation in the econ-omy. Hence, to the extent that policy makers strive to achieve the priorities of citizens, they are …