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Regional Innovation Systems in Small & Medium-Sized Regions A Critical Review & Assessment
Andersson, Martin; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004
Continuous product and process innovations are prerequisites for sustainable competitiveness of both nations and regions. How such innovations are created and how successful innovation processes can be initiated are therefore extremely important questions. In recent years, it has been recognized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644979
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A Spatial ICT Clusters in Sweden – An Empirical Method to Identify Necessary Conditions for Existence
Karlsson, Charlie; Mellander, Charlotta; Paulsson, Thomas - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004
An empirical method to identify the existence of a spatial cluster is proposed. The method, based upon regression … existence of a cluster entails a significant overrepresentation in both the number of establishments as well as in employment … potential or emerging cluster. This paper offers an analysis of the ICT-sector in Sweden, where the proposed method is used to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644949
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Agglomeration and the Spatial Distribution of Creativity
Andersson, Roland; Quigley, John. M; Wilhelmsson, Mats - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2005
research facilities in stimulating regional patent output. Importantly, our results document the importance of agglomeration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644984
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A Portrait of the Innovative Firm as a Small Patenting Entrepreneur
Andersson, Martin; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008
This paper examines small innovative entrepreneurs by contrasting patenting firms against non-patenting firms. The empirical analysis is based on new and unique data on internal attributes, location and international trade characteristics for over 20 000 manufacturing firms in Sweden with 1-25...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644994
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Knowledge & Innovation in Space
Karlsson, Charlie; Johansson, Börje; R. Stough, Roger - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013
The purpose of this working paper is to provide a short overview of actual topics in contemporary research concerned 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010741445
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Innovation, Metropolitan and Productivity
Lööf, Hans; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2011
a 10-year period. The magnitude of benefits from the knowledge milieu of an agglomeration is sizeable, but varies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009352234
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R&D-Persistency, Metropolitan Externalities and Productivity
Lööf, Hans; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010
Firms display persistent differences as regards both internal and external characteristics, and these differences correspond to asymmetries in the performance of firms with regard to productivity level and growth as well as innovativeness. This paper focuses on one internal characteristic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693102
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Innovation, R&D and Productivity - assessing alternative specifications of CDM-models
Johansson, Börje; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
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)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771058
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Innovation Strategy and Firm Performance What is the long-run impact of persistent R&D?
Börje, Johansson; Hans, Lööf - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010
There are systematic long-run differences in the performance of firms explained by the R&D-strategy that each firm employs. Controlling for unobservable heterogeneity, past performance and other firm characteristics, this paper shows that labour productivity is, on average, 13 percent higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008492617
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Multinational Firms and Innovation: The Role of R&D Collaboration, Markets and Ownership
Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007
In this paper, we examine the relationship between R&D collaboration, corporate ownership, market orientation and innovation. In doing so, we classify a Swedish sample of 1,249 multinational enterprises, MNEs, on the basis of their main market, corporate ownership structure and whether their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190545