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 …

capital, talent, creativ¬ity, knowledge generation, knowledge protection, knowl¬edge accumulation, knowl¬edge appropriation …

influence on each other. We regard creativity as one of the sources of entrepreneurship and innovation (although creativity also …In this paper, we focus on the connections between creativity, social capital and economic performance and growth. Our … working hypothesis is that both creativity and social capital influences the economy, both each per se, but also through their …

and local knowledge and innovation dynamics. In particular, we highlight how the global scene is changing in the … innovation in the large urban agglomerations in the old and in new industrialized countries with their concentrations of … base of large cities, and (iii) the interactive dynamics related to learning and creativity. …

An extensive amount of studies have been devoted to the importance of the creative process. Creativity is critical to … research and in particular to innovation, a key feature of economic competitiveness. Most of the previous studies have dealt … with the creativity of individuals, the creativity of teams and the importance of the organisational context. This chapter …

and intellectual creativity in Sweden. The region is an attractor for individuals with ambitions and talents in political … creative ideas and a larger absorptive capacity. This allows the Stockholm region to function as a source of innovation and …

The issue of through what processes R&D collaboration with universities affects a firms’ innovation performance remains …. This study explores the relationship between firms’ collaboration with universities and their capabilities for innovation … under-researched. In particular, university relationships have not been fully integrated in the open innovation framework …

between university collaboration and the average service firm’s innovation output. Second, in the pursuit of credible … dataset of 2,071 Swedish firms. Our findings from this analysis strongly suggest that university collaboration has a positive … two research universities in Stockholm, Sweden. We identify three ideas for how collaboration may help firms become more …

, education and collaboration, and students are given the opportunity to work within applied research projects. The findings are … discussed in terms of researchers’ ability to handle their scholarly tasks of research, teaching, and collaboration, and the …

article analyses the collaboration between the interested parties on this issue. …