are tested using regionally classified Swedish patent application data as a measure of innovativeness. Patent data are … are closer to chemicals than to forestry). These ideas are tested using regionally classified Swedish patent application … data as a measure of innovativeness. Patent data are also used to reflect technological diversity. The results show that …

innovation activities. The selection of high-skill managers is more important for innovation activities. As the economy … investments, but little selection. Closer to the world technology frontier, there is a switch to an innovation-based strategy with …

This paper rigorously explores the impact of firm’s collaboration with universities on innovation. Specifically, using … average service firm’s innovation sales or propensity to apply for patents. …

productivity. Education as well as innovation and production require skilled labour as inputs. This and the fact that learning …

Innovation networking has become both more feasible with improved telecommunication and more important as it usually … uniform. Despite overwhelming evidence on the benefits of collaboration, patent data from 1994-2001 in Sweden demonstrate that … innovation networks are not very common. In addition, the pattern of innovative networks is very fragmented. Our results indicate …

measure of innovation alternative to patent count. Unlike the impact on patent count, we do not find that VC investment … impact on patent count at industry level, and this impact is larger than that of R&D expenditures. We confirm that this … and material. Therefore, our finding suggests that, at industry level, VC investment increases the patent propensity but …