In this paper we analyze how firms’ knowledge absorption capacity – given the knowledge environment – affects the … exploiting their absorptive capacity. The model suggests that the higher the knowledge absorption in firms, the higher the …

. 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 …

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 …

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 …

stages. First, an invention or innovation is generated, and then it is developed and commercialized to create benefits for … innovation inputs to processes that generate regional productivity and productivity gains. We also find that the most effective …