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 …

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 …

between university collaboration and the average service firm’s innovation output. Second, in the pursuit of credible … innovative in the literature of innovation studies. In analysis of the interviews, we find very weak support for the first idea …. Innovation efficiency gains in the form of reduced cost and risk for innovation projects, which is a third idea suggested by the …

outperformed by domestic multinationals in R&D and innovation engagement. Finally, the results on labor productivity are at …

generally outperformed by domestic multinationals in R&D and innovation engagement. Third, despite the fact that domestic … multinationals are considerably more involved in national innovation systems than other firms, they are not producing more innovation …

-owned companies in R&D-activities; the relative embeddedness in various national innovation systems and the relative output … performance from R&D and innovation. A comparison is made between the innovation and productivity of foreign owned enterprises, of … Sweden, and based on the international harmonized Community Innovation Survey and uniform econometric approaches; the study …

This paper asks three explicit questions, where the first one concerns the impact of a firm’s choice of innovation …