Innovation processes in emerging fields of technology frequently utilize scientific knowledge and technical skills from … facilitate research and development (R&D) and formation of innovation networks. The main question analyzed in the paper is how … categories of core research competence and finally by targeting ‘open’ innovation processes characterized by incorporation of …

recurrent knowledge investment through innovation and potential spillovers from the local milieu. The majority of the exporting … that does not engage in innovation and has scarce access to external knowledge, the level of productivity is 2-12 percent … higher for an innovative firm, depending on how innovation is defined and where the innovator is located. The annual long …

This paper analyzes the effect of various innovation strategies of firms on their future performance, captured by … labour productivity. Using five waves of the Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behaviour … of firms over a decade, i.e. from 2002 to 2012. We distinguish between sixteen innovation strategies, which compose of …

. 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 …

This paper applies a CDM-model framework to depict the successive links (correlations) between (i) innovation … expenditure, (ii) innovation output, and (iii) firm productivity. The CDM model has become popular in many countries among … scholars using data from the Community Innovation Survey (CIS). First, the study contrasts a general structural OECD version of …

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

This paper asks whether there is evidence of higher innovation output from firms where there is more foreign activity … in terms of foreign direct investments (FDI), trade and collaboration on innovation, or if proximity between innovators … innovation. The most important aspect of the local milieu on innovation is skilled labour. …

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 …