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and local knowledge and innovation dynamics. In particular, we highlight how the global scene is changing in the … contemporary world economy that we char-acterize as a knowledge economy. We show how knowledge and knowledge dynamics is driving …
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This chapter intends to demonstrate that the Stockholm region is the key centre for knowledge development, innovations … tasks associated with a job. Moreover, the knowledge intensity of an ur-ban region can be related to the absorption capacity …
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In this paper, we analyze the relationship between knowledge accessibility and regional economic growth in Sweden. The … research question we ask in this paper is the following: can the variation between regions in knowledge accessibility in a … in the paper is that the potential for human interaction a various spatial scales transforms into potential knowledge …
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Knowledge is maintained as a core variable for growth in a large set of contemporary theories. In this paper, we … analyze the relationship between knowledge accessibility and regional growth. The knowledge resource used in our model R … actual travel time distances. Using data at the municipality level in Sweden, the hypothesis that knowledge accessibility has …
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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 theory does not explain how or why spillovers occur, or why large …
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Human capital is observed to be an important contributor to growth but unevenly distributed geographically. While there is consensus on the importance of human capital to economic development, debate takes shape around two central issues. First, there is the question of how best to measure human...
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The telecommunications in the 1990s witnessed an enormous worldwide round of Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A). This paper examines the innovation determinants of M&A activity and the consequences of M&A transactions on the technological potential and the innovation performance. We examine the...
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The rapid developments in information and communication technologies (ICT) and the increased use of ICT motivate the vision of an evolving digital economy. During the last decade this evolving digital economy has been the pre-eminent driver of structural change and economic growth at both the...
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This paper investigates the role of the 30 largest firms in the respective Nordic country and in Estonia over the last decade and for some variables between 1975 to 2006. The analysis confirms that the largest firms play a critically important role for industrial dynamics in the Nordic...
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To quickly adapt to technological change and developments, and thus remain competitive, firms increasingly resort to the use of external technology. This paper investigates whether and to what extent the acquisition of external disembodied technology affects the efficiency and productivity in...
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