This paper review existing theories of invention and innovation putting them at the center of the understanding of … origins of invention and innovation highligting individual qualities, social invironments, resources access and incentives for …

In this paper we investigate how various innovation strategies, local knowledge sources and global knowledge pipe … total factor productivity of persistent exporters, however, increases with intensity of invention activities, accessibility …

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 …

the argument that innovation systems are important for an industry’s capacity to generate new patentable knowledge. …

This paper analyzes how different innovation-strategies of incumbent firms affect the quality of their entrepreneurial … spawns. Using a novel data set that combines employer-employee micro data from Sweden with firm level patent application data … files for the period 1997-2008, three types of incumbent firms are distinguished: firms that are engaged in innovation …

venture capital, innovation and entrepreneurship has greatly extended and improved our understanding of one of the major … and organization of the venture capital industry. Later, his most important publications on entrepreneurship, innovation …

. We relate patent activity to measures of localization and urbanization, to the industrial composition and size … research facilities in stimulating regional patent output. Importantly, our results document the importance of agglomeration … and spatial factors in influencing creativity: Patent activity is increased in larger and more dense labor markets and in …

be seen as an attempt to establish an innovation system in computer system development where these kind of different … values were pursued. The innovation system consisted of industry, research institutes, trade unions, and universities, and …