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Industrial Research Institutes’ Collaboration: a three-way solution to integrating new research skills

Bienkowska, Dzamila; Larsen, Katarina - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

Innovation processes in emerging fields of technology frequently utilize scientific knowledge and technical skills from several research areas. Likewise, technological development frequently involves a diverse set of organizations including for example private firms, universities, corporate...

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Are there Financial Constraints for Firms Investing in Skilled Employees?

Martinsson, Gustav - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

This paper explores how financial constraints affect intangible investment for knowledge intensive and less capital intensive firms. In this paper, a knowledge intensive firm implies a firm supplying knowledge intensive services which requires the firm to hire highly educated employees. In...

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The Impact of Firm Collateral on Knowledge Intensive Consulting Firms

Martinsson, Gustav - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008

This paper explores how sales and employment for knowledge intensive consulting firms are correlated. I apply theory on cash flow-investment sensitivities, mostly applied to manufacturing firms, to a less capital intensive part of the economy. Therefore the knowledge intensive consulting sector...

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Agglomeration Dynamics of Business Services

Klaesson, Johan; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008

A major characteristic of the economic development in European and North America during the past 10-15 years is a fast expansion of the producer-service sector. This paper considers the location dynamics of two categories of firms: contact-intensive producer-service suppliers and other firms,...

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Location Attributes and Start-Ups in Knowledge Intensive Business Services

Andersson, Martin; Hellerstedt, Karin - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008

We study start-ups in Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) across regions in Sweden by individuals with a … the KIBS founders have prior work experience from business services, suggesting that KIBS start-ups are more frequent in … regions where the KIBS sector is already large. Controlling for the stock of potential entrepreneurs and the stock KIBS firms …

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Internal and External Knowledge – Innovation of Export Varieties.

Johansson, Börje; Johansson, Sara; Wallin, Tina - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

Firms in local industries maintain their capability to generate innovations by simultaneously exploiting internal and external knowledge resources. The paper introduces the notion variety triplet to distinguish individual export varieties, where a triplet is a unique combination of a firm, a...

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Leaning from multinational companies through hiring: An empirical investigation.

Ding, Ding - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2015

Labor mobility is mechanism for transfer the technology and innovation from multinational firms (MNEs) to non-multinational firms (non-MNEs). In this paper, we use a unique employer-employee data set in Sweden to provide individual-firm match dataset. Using the special research framework, we...

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WHY DO SOME MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS RELOCATE THEIR HEADQUARTERS OVERSEAS?

Birkinshaw, Julian; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Holm, Ulf; … - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2006

This paper examines the decision by a multinational corporation (MNC) to relocate its business unit and/or corporate HQ overseas. We argue that business unit HQs move overseas in response to changes in the internal configuration of their unit’s activities and the demands of the product markets...

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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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Production Risk, Energy Use Efficiency and Productivity of Korean Industries

Khayyat, Nabaz T.; Heshmati, Almas - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014

Korea imports all of its primary energy, which leads to high dependency and vulnerability related to its energy supply. Efficiency in the use of energy is a way to reduce dependency and emissions. This study provides empirical results of the stochastic production process in energy use. Special...

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