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Orsaker till och effekter av växande löneskillnader: Utbud av ny teknik och efterfrågan på kunskap

Lööf, Hans; Nabavi, Pardis - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014

Lönespridningen bland OECD-länderna har ökat kontinuerligt under de senaste decennierna. Som förklaring anges bland annat ökad globalisering och handel, förändringar i den relativa efterfrågan och utbudet av arbetskraft samt institutionella förändringar, såsom fackföreningarnas roll...

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How can firm benefit from access to knowledge-intensive producer services?

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

. Implementing a dynamic panel data approach on Swedish micro data, we test the separate and complementary effect of innovation and … spillovers from the local milieu. Measuring potential knowledge spillover by access to knowledge intensive services, the … estimation results produce strong evidence of differences in the capacity to benefit from external knowledge among persistent …

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Creating Innovations, Productivity and Growth - the efficiency of Icelandic firms

Ho, Dong-huyn; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

Iceland is one of the smallest European economies and the country was hit severely by the 2008-financial crisis. This paper considers the economy in the period preceding the collapse. Applying a Data Envelopment Analysis on 204 randomly selected firms, the results suggest that a substantial...

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How to Persistently Finance Innovation: A Panel-Data Study on Exporting Firms in Sweden

Lööf, Hans; Nabavi, Pardis - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014

This paper provides estimates of negative binomial regressions for high-leveraged and non-high-leveraged exporting firms in Sweden over a business cycle that contains two boom periods and two recession periods. The contemporaneous cash flow coefficients are positive and statistically...

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Innovation, R&D and Productivity - assessing alternative specifications of CDM-models

Johansson, Börje; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

This paper applies a CDM-model framework to depict the successive links (correlations) between (i) innovation … expenditure, (ii) innovation output, and (iii) firm productivity. The CDM model has become popular in many countries among … scholars using data from the Community Innovation Survey (CIS). First, the study contrasts a general structural OECD version of …

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Impact of Economic Crises on Innovation Activity: Firm Level Evidence from Patent Data

Martinsson, Gustav; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

Based on data from of 2,700 Swedish manufacturing firms, observed through the period 1997-2005, this paper shows that internal finance resources, measured by cash-flow, affect the propensity to apply for a patent as well as the number of patent applications. From a business cycle perspective,...

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The Icelandic Economy: a victim of the financial crisis or simply inefficient?

Oh, Dong-Hyun; Lööf, Hans; Heshmati, Almas - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

-level Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data set to consider the economy in the period preceding the collapse of its financial system …

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Internal Finance and Patents - evidence from firm-level data

Martinsson, Gustav; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

We find that internal finance resources at the firm-level, measured by cash flow, play a non-trivial role for the number of patent applications, even after controlling for the standard variables of a patent study. The results are based on estimating panel count-data models on a sample of 2,700...

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Key Characteristics of the Small Innovative Firm

Andersson, Martin; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

innovation activities captured by patent applications, firm characteristics, international trade and the regional milieu. …

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Multinational Enterprises, Spillovers, Innovation and Productivity

Ebersberger, Bernd; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004

knowledge technological knowledge spillover does not manifest itself in superior innovation output or productivity performance … investments, externalities and key actors in national innovation systems and productivity. This study explores whether foreign …-owned multinational firms differ systematically from domestic firms in terms of R&D-investments, transmission of technological knowledge …

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