This paper asks whether there is evidence of higher innovation output from firms where there is more foreign activity … in terms of foreign direct investments (FDI), trade and collaboration on innovation, or if proximity between innovators … is more important. With a sample of about two-thirds of Swedish firms with at least 10 employees and by accounting for …

innovation. In doing so, we classify a Swedish sample of 1,249 multinational enterprises, MNEs, on the basis of their main market … model and estimate the contribution to innovation output from regional and foreign collaboration on innovation with other … firms within the group, universities, suppliers and customers, competitors and consultants, controlling for internal R …

firm level, and (2) innovation as an important factor contributing to the economic growth. This paper looks at the … growth and national innovation systems. The main objective here has been to examine how an identically-specified econometric …The availability of new internationally-harmonized innovation survey data collected from OECD countries has created …

We assess the impact of the location of genuinely new ventures and spinoffs on these firms’ survival, productivity and … growth. The study distinguishes between four different categories of locations: metro cities, metro regions, urban areas, and … viability of the new firms. …

firms to invest in innovative activities. Fifth, when controlling for differences in innovation investments and human … 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 …

firm level, and (2) innovation as an important factor contributing to the economic growth. This paper looks at the … growth and national innovation systems. The main objective here has been to examine how an identically-specified econometric …The availability of new internationally-harmonized innovation survey data collected from OECD countries has created …

regional innovation systems and international knowledge flow by using trade data on openness. The study distinguishes between … launching new products on the export market, and overall technical changes captured by total factor productivity growth. We … counterparts in term of growth rate. We then try to explain this finding by their capacity to utilize local and global knowledge …

This paper is concerned with the productivity and growth of Swedish exporting firms. Using data on 9,580 manufacturing …-run growth rate is 0.2-0.7 higher for innovative firms. Moreover, the performance gap between innovative and non … firms with 10 or more employees for the period 1997-2008, it estimates a dynamic GMM model that captures both the impact of …

(MNE) firms and concentration in specific places due to agglomerative forces. First, innovation ideas arrive at a faster … speed to firms with past experience of innovation activities and with established export market contacts. Second …, innovativeness is strongly dependent on corporate and ownership structure. Third, the returns to innovation efforts are positively …

-level Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data set to consider the economy in the period preceding the collapse of its financial system … Data Envelopment Analysis of 204 randomly selected firms. The results suggest that a substantial fraction of the Icelandic … firms can be classified as non-efficient in their production process. The production scale of many manufacturing firms is …