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Internal Finance and Patents - evidence from firm-level data
Martinsson, Gustav; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
We find that internal finance resources at the firm-level, measured by cash flow, play a non-trivial role for the number of patent applications, even after controlling for the standard variables of a patent study. The results are based on estimating panel count-data models on a sample of 2,700...
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Impact of Economic Crises on Innovation Activity: Firm Level Evidence from Patent Data
Martinsson, Gustav; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
Based on data from of 2,700 Swedish manufacturing firms, observed through the period 1997-2005, this paper shows that internal finance resources, measured by cash-flow, affect the propensity to apply for a patent as well as the number of patent applications. From a business cycle perspective,...
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Key Characteristics of the Small Innovative Firm
Andersson, Martin; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
innovation activities captured by patent applications, firm characteristics, international trade and the regional milieu. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004988933
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Relating entrepreneurship to economic growth
Karlsson, Charlie; Friis, Christian; Paulsson, Thomas - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004
The entrepreneur is an elusive character in economic theory due to the difficulty of providing an accurate description. It appears impossible to produce a single definition of entrepreneurship and most theoretical approaches yield operational difficulties. By the same token, most operational...
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A Portrait of the Innovative Firm as a Small Patenting Entrepreneur
Andersson, Martin; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008
innovation activities, as evidenced by patent applications. Interestingly, when controlling for firm attributes we do not find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644994
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Does Knowledge Diffusion between University and Industry Increase Innovativeness?
Lööf, Hans; Broström, Anders - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004
This paper rigorously explores the impact of firm’s collaboration with universities on innovation. Specifically, using … average service firm’s innovation sales or propensity to apply for patents. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644976
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Towards a Dynamic Theory for the Spatial Knowledge Economy
Karlsson, Charlie; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004
In recent decades the world has witnessed the emergence of a global knowledge economy. For example, the evolution in recent decades of the developed economies has been accompanied by a regional shift in economic activity away from traditional industrial regions to new agglomerations of high...
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Creativity as an integral element of social capital and its role for economic performance
Westlund, Hans; Andersson, Martin; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013
influence on each other. We regard creativity as one of the sources of entrepreneurship and innovation (although creativity also … and values being distributed in them, social capital can promote entrepreneurship and innovation and thus economic growth …, but social capital can have an inhibiting effect on entrepreneurship and innovation. Social capital can contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818716
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Small Nordic Enterprises - developing IPR in global competition
Iversen, Eric; Mäkinen, Iiro; Lööf, Hans; Oh, Dong-Hyun - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
This paper presents the results of a pan-Nordic study to explore how small and medium-size enterprises use IPR. It is a pilot study that demonstrates a commonly developed approach designed to overcome the barriers that hinder study of IPR use by small firms. The pilot study focuses particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004988938
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Accessibility to R&D and Patent Production
Gråsjö, Urban - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2005
The main purpose in this paper is to study to what extent accessibility to R&D can explain patent production. Therefore a knowledge production function is estimated both on aggregated level and for different industrial sectors. The output of the knowledge production is the number patent...
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