This chapter intends to demonstrate that the Stockholm region is the key centre for knowledge development, innovations … tasks associated with a job. Moreover, the knowledge intensity of an ur-ban region can be related to the absorption capacity … creative ideas and a larger absorptive capacity. This allows the Stockholm region to function as a source of innovation and …

This paper proposes a framework to analyze knowledge creation in traditional sectors and empirically test innovation … ease of learning and promote absorptive capacity and knowledge, which in turn fosters innovation in SMEs in traditional … external network in terms of knowledge and innovation. JEL Codes: D83, O31, J24, L1, C25 …

We provide new insights into the role of individual inventors in innovation. We focus our analysis on prolific …

new knowledge. We employ a panel of 20 European countries and we study the impact of the share of foreigners in the … skilled labour force on two measures of innovation, namely the number of patents and the number of citations of scientific … innovation. What underlined hypotheses may drive such result? First, skilled foreigners contribute to enlarge the size of the …

knowledge. The dynamic life-cycle approach elaborated in the second part provides a coherent account of the evidence, and … indicates interesting implications for innovation and educational policies. …

This review of the innovation literature seeks to identify the role of skilled labor in the process of innovation and … technological change. After an introduction of main innovation theories, the role of skills is analyzed from several perspectives … skilled labor to innovation from within the firm and from external sources. (3) Regional systems of innovation - Endowment of …

impact of innovation on labour productivity using firm data from national innovation and administrative surveys. To ensure … of innovation 2005 linked with the Annual Survey of Manufactures and Logging (ASML). The estimated econometric model … probability to innovate and having positive innovation sales. (2) Exports (both to the US and outside of the US market …