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Designing Democracy: The UTOPIA-project and the Role of Labour Movement in Technological Change, 1981—1986

Lundin, Per - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2006

The paper describes and analyses a Scandinavian research project on trade union based development of, and training in, computer technology and work organization, especially text and image processing in the graphic industries, that was named UTOPIA and carried out between 1981 and 1986. UTOPIA...

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Regional Interaction & Economic Diversity - exploring the role of geographically overlapping markets for a municipality’s diversity in retail and durables

Andersson, Martin; Klaesson, Johan - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2006

This paper is devoted to the study of municipal diversity in retail and durables. Specifically, it analyzes how a region’s relative market-accessibility in a system (or hierarchy) of municipalities affects the extent of diversity. In the theoretical part of the paper a simple modelmunicipal...

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Dynamic Optimal Capital Structure and Technical Change

Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004

The importance of capital structure is explored by comparing existing archetypes of financial systems through a new methodological application. Differences in firms’ cost of capital show that capital structure is relevant in R&D and other investment decisions. The conclusions are that 1) there...

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How can firm benefit from access to knowledge-intensive producer services?

Lööf, Hans; Nabavi, Pardis; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

This paper examines variation in a productivity growth within a given location and between different locations …

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Regional Productivity and Accessibility to Knowledge and Dense Markets

Karlsson, Charlie; Pettersson, Lars - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2005

between regional productivity measures as gross regional product per square kilometre and accessibility to educated labour. We …

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Creating Innovations, Productivity and Growth - the efficiency of Icelandic firms

Ho, Dong-huyn; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

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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A Sequential Malmquist-Luenberger Productivity Index

Oh, Donhyun; Heshmati, Almas - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

This study proposes an alternative methodology for measuring environmentally sensitive productivity growth. The … combination, the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index is modified to give the alternative sequential … environmentally sensitive productivity index. This proposed index is employed in measuring productivity growth and its decomposed …

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Innovation, Metropolitan and Productivity

Lööf, Hans; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2011

This paper assesses the contribution to productivity of firms’ internal innovation efforts and spatially …

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Exporters, Spin-outs and Firm Performance

Lööf, Hans; Nabavi, Pardis - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

firms in terms of survival, productivity and growth? Using a panel of about 2,000 ex-employee starts ups, their parent …

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The Inventive, the Educated, and the Creative: How Do They Affect Metropolitan Productivity?

Lobo, José; Mellander, Charlotta; Stolarick, Kevin; … - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

A longstanding research tradition assumes that endogenous technological development increases regional productivity. It … endogenous creation of new ideas that result in productivity improvements. This process has been conceived as occurring in two … the individual or firm owning the idea. Typically these steps are combined into a single model of the “invention in/productivity …

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