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Skill and Cross-National Economic Performance
Florida, Richard; Mellander, Charlotta - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010
The role of human capital in shaping cross-national economic performance is well-understood. But human capital is an indirect measure of skill, based on educational attainment. We introduce and test a more direct measure of skill, based on work that is actually performed, measured by occupation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008626066
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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
This paper analyzes the spatial distribution of “creativity” -- the production of new knowledge. We analyze commercial … and spatial factors in influencing creativity: Patent activity is increased in larger and more dense labor markets and in … creativity is greater in labor markets with more diverse employment bases and in those which contain a larger share of national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644984
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Creativity as an integral element of social capital and its role for economic performance
Westlund, Hans; Andersson, Martin; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013
In this paper, we focus on the connections between creativity, social capital and economic performance and growth. Our … working hypothesis is that both creativity and social capital influences the economy, both each per se, but also through their … influence on each other. We regard creativity as one of the sources of entrepreneurship and innovation (although creativity also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818716
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Clusters, Networks and Creativity
Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010
An extensive amount of studies have been devoted to the importance of the creative process. Creativity is critical to … with the creativity of individuals, the creativity of teams and the importance of the organisational context. This chapter … creative activities. The milieu will play an important role in creativity by supplying both a large number of incompatible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008853951
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Impact of Economic Crises on Innovation Activity: Firm Level Evidence from Patent Data
Martinsson, Gustav; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
Based on data from of 2,700 Swedish manufacturing firms, observed through the period 1997-2005, this paper shows that internal finance resources, measured by cash-flow, affect the propensity to apply for a patent as well as the number of patent applications. From a business cycle perspective,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506820
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Internal Finance and Patents - evidence from firm-level data
Martinsson, Gustav; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
We find that internal finance resources at the firm-level, measured by cash flow, play a non-trivial role for the number of patent applications, even after controlling for the standard variables of a patent study. The results are based on estimating panel count-data models on a sample of 2,700...
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Key Characteristics of the Small Innovative Firm
Andersson, Martin; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
Despite broad agreement on the strategic role of SMEs (Small and Medium Sized Enterprises) in industrial renewal processes, the lack of systematized and comprehensive information on the nature and level of small innovative firms is striking. This bias is partly explained by an empirical shadow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004988933
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Small Nordic Enterprises - developing IPR in global competition
Iversen, Eric; Mäkinen, Iiro; Lööf, Hans; Oh, Dong-Hyun - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
This paper presents the results of a pan-Nordic study to explore how small and medium-size enterprises use IPR. It is a pilot study that demonstrates a commonly developed approach designed to overcome the barriers that hinder study of IPR use by small firms. The pilot study focuses particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004988938
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Accessibility to R&D and Patent Production
Gråsjö, Urban - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2005
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/10005644933
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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...
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