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with global, national, regional and local knowledge and innovation dynamics. In the text, we stress the importance to … understand the current changes of the global and their implications for knowledge generation and innovation. Treating knowledge … as a key resource for innovation shifts the focus from the innovation itself to the process of knowledge generation …
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The Lisbon Agenda was approved in mars 2000 and at that time, the European Union was facing economic prosperity. Even so, globalization and new knowledge economies were becoming an increasing threat and the EU was in need of a transformation in its economy and society. The Lisbon Agenda was set...
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. Implementing a dynamic panel data approach on Swedish micro data, we test the separate and complementary effect of innovation and … innovators, temporary innovators and non-innovators. The results are consistent regardless of whether innovation efforts are …
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In this paper we analyze how firms’ knowledge absorption capacity – given the knowledge environment – affects the development, adoption and introduction of new export products among Swedish manufacturing firms. Our model formulation builds on theoretical arguments which imply that firms...
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Lönespridningen bland OECD-länderna har ökat kontinuerligt under de senaste decennierna. Som förklaring anges bland annat ökad globalisering och handel, förändringar i den relativa efterfrågan och utbudet av arbetskraft samt institutionella förändringar, såsom fackföreningarnas roll...
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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 …
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innovation output, as measured by firm patent applications. The effect is particularly strong for knowledge workers that have …
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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 …
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This paper analyses the aspects of spatial economics that deals with innovation, regional specialization and dynamic … systems of functional regions and in particular the contributions made by the economist Börje Johansson. The innovation aspect … consists of innovation networks, knowledge sources and knowledge sinks, cost and innovation of product characteristics and …
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Iceland is one of the smallest European economies and the country was hit severely by the 2008-financial crisis. This paper considers the economy in the period preceding the collapse. Applying a Data Envelopment Analysis on 204 randomly selected firms, the results suggest that a substantial...
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