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When local interaction does not suffice: Sources of firm innovation in urban Norway
Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
The geographical sources of innovation of firms have been hotly debated. While the traditional view is that physical … survey of the level of innovation of 1604 firms of more than 10 employees located in the five largest Norwegian city … innovation and b) the factors behind the propensity to innovate in Norwegian firms. The results stress that while interaction …
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Building absorptive capacity in less developed countries The case of Tanzania
Szogs, Astrid; Chaminade, Cristina; Azatyan, Ruzana - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2008
African countries lag clearly behind developed countries when it comes to accumulating technological capabilities, upgrading and catching up. Also, firms in least developed countries are characterised by very low levels of absorptive capacity. It is therefore crucial to understand how this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077271
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R&D and financial systems: the determinants of R&D expenditures in the Swedish pharmaceutical industry
Malmberg, Claes - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2008
This study investigates the determinants of R&D expenditures in the Swedish pharmaceutical industry from the 1960s to the mid 1990s. Various proxies for the rate of return of R&D (e.g. expected profit, sales and R&D productivity) as well as the availability of internal funding (proxied by past...
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The paradox of high R&D input and low innovation output: Sweden
Bitard, Pierre; Edquist, Charles; Hommen, Leif; Rickne, … - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2008
plagued by low pay-off in relation to very high investments in R&D and innovation efforts. Using new data, we show that this … related to the Swedish paradox. We take account of the history of innovation policy in Sweden and – on the basis of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077279
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Industrial dynamics and innovative pressure on energy - Sweden with European and Global outlooks
Kander, Astrid; Schön, Lennart - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2007
The focus in this paper is on industrial dynamics and its impact on energy systems.. We highlight some fundamental patterns of this long-term dynamics, using the Dahmenian concept ‘development blocks’, with ‘market widening’ and ‘market suction’, and discuss the implications for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022197
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Smart specialisation, regional growth and applications to EU cohesion policy
McCann, Philip; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2011
This paper examines the arguments underpinning the smart specialisation concept, an idea which originally emerged from the sectoral growth literature, and one which has recently been applied with to the regional policy context. The shift from a sectoral to a regional context appears prima facie...
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Région apprenante: du concept à l'application :l'exemple de la Suisse
Boulianne, Louis-M. - In: Brussels Economic Review 48 (2005) 3, pp. 261-276
The communication presents a reflexion on the applicability of the concept of area learning like instrument from policy from regional development. The originality of the communication is to present a reflexion which goes from the theoretical concept to the implementation on the ground by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005163125
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Smart Specialisation in the EU: Is it a Bridge between Innovation and Cohesion?
Pessoa, Argentino - European Regional Science Association - 2014
Current innovation policy is the result of decades of research about the nature and role of innovation in economic … growth. Such investigation has contributed to redesign our knowledge not only on the role played by innovation in economic … development but also about the relationship between innovation and territory. Although the huge literature examining the …
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Are Intellectual Property Rights Evolving Towards the Enclosure of the ‘Intangible Commons’?
Escalona Reynoso, Rafael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
the research cycle, a movement which may actually discourage future research innovation. This document addresses some of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258318
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Looking for Innovation Investment Opportunities in the Interplay between MNCs and SMEs
Vass, Laurie Thomas - 2015
innovation and a private sector, for-profit business model that implements the ideas on innovation and entrepreneurship …, but usually without the benefit of placing innovation investment opportunities in its historical context.In order to … discover innovation investment opportunities in SMEs, before other investors see the same opportunity, the mental road map of …
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