economy, and the Swedish innovation system in particular. We analyze the company’s role as an employer in the private sector … company’s role in the Swedish knowledge economy and innovation system. The report analyses the company as a node for knowledge … flows in the Swedish economy and innovation system, and its role as an employer of highly educated and skilled workers in …

automotive parts industry, is negatively related with propensity to patent innovation. Also, unlike expectations, the InnoBiz …

innovation output, as measured by firm patent applications. The effect is particularly strong for knowledge workers that have …

of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … economy. We argue that the latter area has been overlooked in the policy discussion and that a coherent innovation policy …

This paper analyses the persistency in innovation behaviour of firms. Using five waves of the Community Innovation … Transition Probability Matrix, we found evidence of (unconditional) state dependence in all types of innovation, with product …

influence on each other. We regard creativity as one of the sources of entrepreneurship and innovation (although creativity also … and values being distributed in them, social capital can promote entrepreneurship and innovation and thus economic growth …, but social capital can have an inhibiting effect on entrepreneurship and innovation. Social capital can contribute to …

In this paper we investigate how various innovation strategies, local knowledge sources and global knowledge pipe …

. Implementing a dynamic panel data approach on Swedish micro data, we test the separate and complementary effect of innovation and … innovators, temporary innovators and non-innovators. The results are consistent regardless of whether innovation efforts are …

Recent literature on firm innovation emphasize the importance of combinations of different knowledge sources in … innovation processes. Moreover, the literature on firm collaboration has evolved stepwise: (1) knowledge networks tend to be … important. By using data from a survey on innovation and collaboration of 636 firms in the county of Jönköping, Sweden, we find …