plagued by low pay-off in relation to very high investments in R&D and innovation efforts. Using new data, we show that this … related to the Swedish paradox. We take account of the history of innovation policy in Sweden and – on the basis of the …

The vast literature of systems of innovation is rich in theoretical and empirical studies about the complexity and … manner the nature and types of strategic choices that public actors in systems of innovation are facing given the ever … posing to systems of innovation in industrialised and developing countries, past and present. The next section approaches the …

corporate innovation in small technology-based firms. An analysis of 135 Swedish technology-based firms suggests that board … involvement in decision control may influence corporate innovation. The empirical results show that board involvement in strategic … decision control is positively associated with process innovation, while board involvement in financial decision control is …

science and innovation policies. The variety of forms of university-industry linkages and spatial relationships that … the 1990s has led to the emergence of new systems of innovation, in which university-industry linkages have been sought as …

the environment for innovation and technology transfer. The rationale behind these innovation policies, as the “new …” policies are often called, seems also to have been strongly influenced by a “new innovation paradigm”. Even though innovation …, institutions, cultures, etc. In this text, I elaborate on these issues in an analysis of the development of a “new” innovation …