-level Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data set to consider the economy in the period preceding the collapse of its financial system … too small to be considered technically efficient, while services firms typically use excessive resources in their …

This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation …-productivity relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing …. In this paper, the importance of innovation is explored by comparing manufacturing and service firms in a sample of …

In this paper, we analyze how the offshoring of services by Swedish firms is affected by corruption in target economies … services is affected by the presence of corruption in target economies. The results suggest that corruption is a deterrent for … service offshoring. Firms avoid corrupt countries, and corruption reduces the amount of offshored services. In addition, the …

growth premium from exporting is substantial for business services, 2% per year, compared to 0.5% for the retail and …

. Implementing a dynamic panel data approach on Swedish micro data, we test the separate and complementary effect of innovation and … spillovers from the local milieu. Measuring potential knowledge spillover by access to knowledge intensive services, the … innovators, temporary innovators and non-innovators. The results are consistent regardless of whether innovation efforts are …

and informal networks with input suppliers (especially suppliers of knowledge-intensive business services) and by …

Recent literature on firm innovation emphasize the importance of combinations of different knowledge sources in … innovation processes. Moreover, the literature on firm collaboration has evolved stepwise: (1) knowledge networks tend to be … important. By using data from a survey on innovation and collaboration of 636 firms in the county of Jönköping, Sweden, we find …

innovation output, as measured by firm patent applications. The effect is particularly strong for knowledge workers that have …

Innovation networking has become both more feasible with improved telecommunication and more important as it usually … innovation networks are not very common. In addition, the pattern of innovative networks is very fragmented. Our results indicate … that innovation networks are more likely to exist in densely populated areas with a diversified industry. Face …