econometric methods to extensive data on innovation and innovative activities in Swedish manufacturing. Knowledge capital, defined … as the ratio of innovation sales to total sales, is found to be a significant factor contributing to the performance …. Third, knowledge capital rises with innovation input per employee. Fourth, profitability is important for the willingness of …

cost implies that firms save money by smoothing innovation spending across the business cycle if they have available … so, we investigate possible differences in the innovation-cash flow link between high-tech firms and all exporters …, creation and exploitation innovation activities, persistent and non-persistent exporters. Applying a modified Euler model and …

This paper rigorously explores the impact of firm’s collaboration with universities on innovation. Specifically, using … average service firm’s innovation sales or propensity to apply for patents. …

recurrent knowledge investment through innovation and potential spillovers from the local milieu. The majority of the exporting … that does not engage in innovation and has scarce access to external knowledge, the level of productivity is 2-12 percent … higher for an innovative firm, depending on how innovation is defined and where the innovator is located. The annual long …

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

innovation activities. The selection of high-skill managers is more important for innovation activities. As the economy … investments, but little selection. Closer to the world technology frontier, there is a switch to an innovation-based strategy with …