The purpose of this research is to examine a driving force behind innovation, human capital, which we contend is useful … in identifying and exploiting opportunities in both goods and services contexts. Traditional predictors of innovation … theory, this research proposes that investment in employees is an innovation predictor that embraces the nuances of both …

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 … creative ideas and a larger absorptive capacity. This allows the Stockholm region to function as a source of innovation and …

This paper proposes a framework to analyze knowledge creation in traditional sectors and empirically test innovation … ease of learning and promote absorptive capacity and knowledge, which in turn fosters innovation in SMEs in traditional … external network in terms of knowledge and innovation. JEL Codes: D83, O31, J24, L1, C25 …

We provide new insights into the role of individual inventors in innovation. We focus our analysis on prolific …

knowledge is learned, shared and used determines organizational innovation and effectiveness. In my dissertation, I build on …Knowledge is increasingly recognized as one of the most critical resources in the modern workplace, because the way … construal level theory to explore the relationship between workers’ roles and the types of knowledge that workers create and …

Die vorliegende Studie wurde im Arbeitsbereich Humankapital und Innovation erstellt und im Dezember 2010 abgeschlossen …

new knowledge. We employ a panel of 20 European countries and we study the impact of the share of foreigners in the … skilled labour force on two measures of innovation, namely the number of patents and the number of citations of scientific … innovation. What underlined hypotheses may drive such result? First, skilled foreigners contribute to enlarge the size of the …

Recent studies within the innovation systems perspective have not paid enough attention to the role that Vocational … Training (VT) centres and technical workers can play in innovation processes. In this paper we review the recent international …, in-company work training, hiring of graduates, continuous training, and innovation-related services. Results show that …