, focusing on the relation between institutions and innovation practices and taking into account the diversity of actors …

international panel data set of large R&D performing firms, we can show empirically that a firm’s innovation activities affect its …

Much has been written about innovation cooperation. But little research has been done to explain national differences … thereof. Using macro and micro evidence from the fourth Community Innovation Survey, we econometrically investigate the extent … to which national framework conditions account for the propensity of firms to cooperate on innovation at home and abroad …

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 … further. This effect is present for all levels of growth only when new products, production processes and support functions …

This paper explores how the innovation strategies of firms reflect the density, diversity and connectivity of their …

learning and collaborative innovation. Different forms of proximity include geographical, cognitive, social, institutional and …

approach in the research fields of innovation studies and economic geography. Secondly, to propose a broadened interpretation …, regions and time periods and for analytically integrating the cognitive, organizational and spatial dimensions of innovation … knowledge base approach in empirical innovation studies, regardless of industrial, geographical or temporal context. The paper …

Smart specialisation as a strategic approach for an innovation-driven regional development policy is extremely … policy approach. We will discuss the role of different modes of innovation and knowledge bases for different types of new … western parts of Norway, which has been successful economically despite low scores on the typical innovation indicators. The …

low access to local knowledge spillovers tend to collaborate more. This effect, however, depends on firm size and in …