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Clusters, Functional Regions and Cluster Policies

Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

first in the early 1990s that Krugman brought the subject into the stage light. The scientific interests of cluster and … at various education levels. The importance of cluster and clustering has also been recognized at a national, regional … and local level and cluster policies are becoming a major part of political thinking. These policies are however often …

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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...

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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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Product Innovation, Export Entrepreneurship and Regional Characteristics - an analysis of innovation ideas in regions

Andersson, Martin; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

This paper focuses on how characteristics of regions pertaining to local information about product varieties and markets as well as networks for the transmission of information about innovation opportunities influence the arrival of innovation ideas to existing and potential entrepreneurs. We...

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Spatial Inventor Networks As Studied by Patent Coinventorship

Ejermo, Olof; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004

We study the structure of the spatial inventor networks in Sweden by examining the residence of inventors and coinventors in Swedish patent applications to the European Patent Office. Several factors are found to influence the spatial affinity. We find that spatial affinity is strongly...

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Technological Diversity and Jacobs' Externality Hypothesis Revisited

Ejermo, Olof - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004

Recent empirical evidence strongly supports Jacobs’ (1969) externality hypothesis, that urban diversity provides a more favorable environment for economic development. In order to correctly gauge Jacobs’ hypothesis, economic development should be understood as a result of innovations....

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PRODUCT INNOVATION, EXPORT AND LOCATION OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Andersson, Martin; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2006

This paper introduces a model where new products are introduced by entrepreneurs or innovating firms in a quasi-temporal setting. Market conditions are characterized by monopolistic competition between varieties belonging to the same product group, where varieties can become obsolete over time...

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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...

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REGIONAL POLICY AS CHANGE MANAGEMENT - a theoretical discussion with empirical illustrations

Andersson, Martin; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2011

The paper focuses on challenges and potentials for policy in the presence of fundamental change processes that influence the long-term evolution of regions. The perspective in the paper implies that policy can be viewed as ‘management of change’. We present a conceptual model for...

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The location of new firms - Influence of commuting behaviour

Backman, Mikaela; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2015

In this paper, we analyse where people who become self-employed actually start their firms. In the entrepreneurship literature, it is generally assumed that individuals who start a firm start it where they live. We question this general assumption and show that this does not hold for commuters....

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