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Accessibility to R&D and Patent Production
Gråsjö, Urban - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2005
often is the case with R&D outputs, the regional distribution of patents is highly skewed with influential outliers. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644933
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The Importance of Accessibility to R&D on Patent Production in Swedish Municipalities
Gråsjö, Urban - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004
The main purpose in this paper is to study to what extent accessibility to R&D can explain patent production. Therefore a knowledge production function is estimated both on aggregated level and for different industrial sectors. The output of the knowledge production is the number patent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644966
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Does Knowledge Diffusion between University and Industry Increase Innovativeness?
Lööf, Hans; Broström, Anders - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004
hypotheses that whether academic knowledge has a positive impact on innovative sales and the propensity to apply for patents … average service firm’s innovation sales or propensity to apply for patents. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644976
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What Do We Learn From Schumpeterian Growth Theory?
Aghion, Philippe; Akcigit, Ufuk; Howitt, Peter - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013
Schumpeterian growth theory has “operationalized” Schumpeter’s notion of creative destruction by developing models based on this concept. These models shed light on several aspects of the growth process which could not be properly addressed by alternative theories. In this survey, we focus...
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The inventor's role: was Schumpeter right?
Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Svensson, Roger - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007
based on a survey covering Swedish patents granted to individuals and small firms, with a response rate of 80 %. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645001
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The Impact of Public Funding on Private R&D investment: New Evidence from a Firm Level Innovation Study
Lööf, Hans; Heshmati, Almas - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004
This paper investigates the effectiveness of a public innovation policy aimed at stimulating private R&D investment. The research will examine whether public funding increases the total spending on research or merely displaces funding from private sources. The empirical analysis is based on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190548
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Persistent Exporter Performance: The importance of internal, local and global knowledge
Lööf, Hans; Nabavi, Pardis; Cook, Gary; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013
In this paper we investigate how various innovation strategies, local knowledge sources and global knowledge pipe-lines influence the likelihood that a firm will be a persistent exporter and the productivity growth of such persistently exporting firms. Using a bivariate logit model and a dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818725
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THE FATE OF PATENTS: AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OF PATENTS AS IPO SIGNALS OF REPUTATIONAL ADVANTAGE
Basir, Nada; Beyhaghi, Mehdi; Mohammadi, Ali - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014
Drawing on the reputation literature and signaling theory, this article builds on work that looks at patents as … reputation signals. We build a multi-industry database of patents that expire due to lack of maintenance fee payments and test … for a relationship between these patents and the firm’s IPO date. We find a significant and positive relationship between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010751974
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005206975
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Productivity of and Returns to Knowledge Investments
Andersson, Åke E - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
Information and knowledge are essential to the decision making of firms. However, information is a primitive in the formation of knowledge. Information and the related concepts of risk and surprise are primarily of importance for rational decision making while knowledge is a form of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190552