-level innovativeness. This observation has been explained by older employees working with outdated technological knowledge and being … particular turnover of R&D workers is deemed a vehicle for transfer of external knowledge to the firm, which can compensate for … lower cognitive flexibility and up-to-date knowledge among older workers. We use a matched employer-employee dataset based …

Using Norwegian Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data linked to public employment registers covering the years 2004 … - 2010, this paper investigates the relationship between employment growth prior to the event of innovation, innovation … process innovations, and reveal interdependencies between multi-faceted organizational capabilities, innovation output and …

This paper deals with institutional conditions in regional innovation systems; how institutions affect the organization … of innovation activities among firms, and in what ways regional policy initiatives can be supportive. The analysis draws … on data on innovation networks and activities in the life science, media, and food industries. The theoretical framework …

learning and collaborative innovation. Different forms of proximity include geographical, cognitive, social, institutional and … framework by theorizing how the relative importance of each proximity dimension depends on the type of knowledge being produced …, where we distinguish between analytical, synthetic and symbolic knowledge. We argue that our theoretical framework in …

knowledge base approach in empirical innovation studies, regardless of industrial, geographical or temporal context. The paper … thereby dismisses the wide-spread taxonomical application of knowledge base conceptualizations in innovation studies and …This paper has three aims. Firstly, to provide a critical review of previous conceptualizations of the knowledge base …

external knowledge sources. Drawing on case study material, this paper investigates the role of intermediate organizations in … facilitating technological knowledge transfer between the university and the indigenous SMEs, discussing how capabilities are built … during such intermediation. Particularly, we discuss the role of NGOs facilitating the transfer of knowledge between …