innovation activities captured by patent applications, firm characteristics, international trade and the regional milieu. …

empirical analysis is based on new and unique data on internal attributes, location and international trade characteristics for …, human capital and trade with R&D-intensive economies correlate highly significant with their propensity to be engaged in … innovation activities, as evidenced by patent applications. Interestingly, when controlling for firm attributes we do not find …

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. …

in terms of foreign direct investments (FDI), trade and collaboration on innovation, or if proximity between innovators …This paper asks whether there is evidence of higher innovation output from firms where there is more foreign activity … innovation. The most important aspect of the local milieu on innovation is skilled labour. …

regional innovation systems and international knowledge flow by using trade data on openness. The study distinguishes between …

. Implementing a dynamic panel data approach on Swedish micro data, we test the separate and complementary effect of innovation and … spillovers from the local milieu. Measuring potential knowledge spillover by access to knowledge intensive services, the … innovators, temporary innovators and non-innovators. The results are consistent regardless of whether innovation efforts are …

investments, externalities and key actors in national innovation systems and productivity. This study explores whether foreign … embeddedness in scientific, vertical and horizontal innovation systems. However, the advantage of higher R&D intensity and possible … knowledge technological knowledge spillover does not manifest itself in superior innovation output or productivity performance …