This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … conditional mean of labor productivity: through an observed binary indicator, an observed intensity variable or through the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

between sixteen innovation strategies, which compose of Schumpeterian 4 types of innovations (process, product, marketing, and …

This paper is concerned with the productivity and growth of Swedish exporting firms. Using data on 9,580 manufacturing … that does not engage in innovation and has scarce access to external knowledge, the level of productivity is 2-12 percent …

This paper investigates whether domestic firms’ productivity is an increasing function of imports from the most … knowledge intensive economies in the world, i.e. the G7 countries. Using Swedish firm-level data, we confirm an instantaneous … causality going from imports to productivity. We also show that productivity is increasing in the G7-fraction of total imports …

This chapter intends to demonstrate that the Stockholm region is the key centre for knowledge development, innovations … of firms in the region, implying that firms can make use of all sorts of novelties in the world economy as stimuli for … own imi-tations and innovations. Compared to other parts of Sweden, the Stockholm region has both a richer inflow of …