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 …

of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … accumulation, investment, and upgrading of knowledge and (ii) the implementation of mechanisms that enable knowledge to be … exploited such that growth and societal prosperity are encouraged. Knowledge is a necessary but far from sufficient condition …

and drivers of innovation, technology and knowledge. The role of absorptive capacity and knowledge flows between economic … multinationals contribute to innovation, technology and knowledge dispersion. The distribution of knowledge investments is uneven …This paper outlines a set of fundamental changes in the global economy that have altered the nature of the innovation …

. 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 …

Recent literature on firm innovation emphasize the importance of combinations of different knowledge sources in … innovation processes. Moreover, the literature on firm collaboration has evolved stepwise: (1) knowledge networks tend to be … important. By using data from a survey on innovation and collaboration of 636 firms in the county of Jönköping, Sweden, we find …

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 …