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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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Remittances and Investment

Bjuggren, Per-Olof; Dzansi, James; Shukur, Ghazi - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010

This paper studies the impact of remittances on investment. Workers’ remittances to developing countries have grown to be an important source of financing, amounting to around $300 billion a year. The funds are used for both consumption and investment in the home countries of the migrants. The...

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The knowledge filter, Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth

Carlsson, Bo; Acs, Zoltan; Audretsch, David; … - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth in the United States over the last 150 years. According to the “new growth theory,” investments in knowledge and human capital generate economic growth via spillovers of knowledge. But the...

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FDI inflows to the Transition Economies in Eastern Europe: Magnitude and Determinants

Johnson, Andreas - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2006

This paper shows that there are large differences in the volume of FDI that individual European transition economies … a distinction between ‘traditional’ determinants based on the motive for FDI and ‘transition-specific’ determinants. The … empirical analysis contributes to earlier research by separating the transition economies into two groups, CEE and CIS countries …

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Orsaker till och effekter av växande löneskillnader: Utbud av ny teknik och efterfrågan på kunskap

Lööf, Hans; Nabavi, Pardis - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014

Lönespridningen bland OECD-länderna har ökat kontinuerligt under de senaste decennierna. Som förklaring anges bland annat ökad globalisering och handel, förändringar i den relativa efterfrågan och utbudet av arbetskraft samt institutionella förändringar, såsom fackföreningarnas roll...

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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

Accessibility to knowledge and local service markets can be assumed to explain regional growth performance. The role of regional supply of services and educated labour with respect to regional development are stressed by many researchers. In this paper we make an empirical analysis using panel...

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The Spatial Distribution of Innovation Networks

Wilhelmsson, Mats - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

Innovation networking has become both more feasible with improved telecommunication and more important as it usually produces research of higher quality. However, the spatial distribution of academic networks and innovative networks are not uniform. Despite overwhelming evidence on the benefits...

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Metropolitan Regions: Preconditions and Strategies for Growth and Development in the Global Economy

Klaesson, Johan; Johansson, Börje; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2011

The importance of metropolitan regions as national growth and development engines, and in particular as driving forces in national as well as global innovation processes is well recognized. This paper highlights the role of metropolitan regions in different contexts in order to lay a foundation...

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Regional Development and Knowledge

Karlsson, Charlie; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2006

This paper focuses on the concept of knowledge and examines models depicting and explaining the role of knowledge in regional development and provides an assessment of empirical studies of how knowledge affects growth and development in functional regions. For this paper it is crucial to...

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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 has been assumed that measures of regional patenting activity or human capital are an adequate way to capture the endogenous creation of new ideas that result in productivity...

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