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Institutions and Regulations in Innovation Systems: Effects, Problems and Innovation Policy Design

Borrás, Susana; Edquist, Charles - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2014

Institutions (including regulations) are constitutive elements of innovation systems, and therefore cornerstones of innovation policy. Focusing on (soft and hard) regulation, the paper identifies the most salient regulatory areas from the perspective of the innovation system. When asking about...

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Innovation Policy for Knowledge Production and R&D: the Investment Portfolio Approach

Borrás, Susana; Edquist, Charles - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2014

Who produces scientific and technical knowledge these days? What type of knowledge is being produced and for what purposes? Why are firms and governments funding research and development? This chapter studies the role of knowledge production (especially R&D activities) in the innovation process...

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How Important are Local Inventive Milieus: The role of Birthplace, High School and University Education

Ejermo, Olof; Hansen, Høgni Kalsø - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2014

Using the whole population and almost all individuals in Sweden listed as inventors, we study how the probability of being listed on a patent as inventor is influenced by the density of other future inventors residing in the same region, while controlling for demographic and sector effects along...

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The role of universities in regional development: conceptual models and policy institutions in the UK, Sweden and Austria

Trippl, Michaela; Sinozic, Tanja; Lawton Smith, Helen - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2014

The literature on universities’ contributions to regional development is broad and diverse. A precise understanding of … on universities’ contributions to regional economic and societal development. We identify and review four conceptual … activities and outputs by which universities are seen to benefit their regions. We also find that these models differ markedly …

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Technology and Trade - an analysis of technology specialization and export flows

Martin, Andersson; Ejermo, Olof - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2006

This paper examines how technology specialization, measured by citations-weighted patents, affects trade flows. The … paper analyzes (i) the relationship between technology specialization and export specialization across regions and (ii) how … the technology specialization of origin and destination affect the size and structure of link-specific export flows. We …

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Firms’ Innovation Strategies Analyzed and Explained

Tavassoli, Sam; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2015

This paper analyzes various innovation strategies of firms. Using five waves of the Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behavior of firms over a ten-year period, i.e. between 2002 and 2012. We distinguish between sixteen innovation strategies, which compose of...

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Substitution or overlap? The relations between geographical and non-spatial proximity dimensions in collaborative innovation projects

Hansen, Teis - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013

Traditionally, economic geographers stress geographical proximity’s positive impact on collaboration processes. Recently, effects of cognitive, organisational, social and institutional proximity dimensions have been emphasised. This paper examines the relations between geography and these...

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Innovation under the protected label of origin: heritage, influence and expanding horizons in Cognac

Moodysson, Jerker; Sack, Lionel - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013

Previous research has shown that firms react differently to the same institutional configurations due to their different backgrounds. This study examines a regional economy in France in which 300 firms are operating under the same framework conditions and have done so over a long period. From...

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Competence Building: A Systemic Approach to Innovation Policy

Borrás, Susana; Edquist, Charles - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013

The main question that guides this paper is how governments are focusing (and must focus) on competence building (education and training) when designing and implementing innovation policies. With this approach, the paper aims at filling the gap between the existing literature on competences on...

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Services vs. Manufacturing – How Does Foreign and Domestic Sales Impact on their R&D?

Ejermo, Olof; Bergman, Karin - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013

While the distinction between manufacturing and services becomes increasingly blurred to some observers, we find, using a panel of Swedish firms, clear evidence that foreign sales (exports) are more important than domestic sales for stimulating R&D. This is particularly clear for manufacturing...

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