regional innovation systems and international knowledge flow by using trade data on openness. The study distinguishes between …This paper examines the importance of localized knowledge for innovative exporters by observing their embeddedness in … compare the new knowledge creation in 1,000 domestically and foreign owned Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) in Sweden over the …

benefits from innovation than knowledge intensive manufacturing firms? Empirical results based on innovation survey data …This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation …-productivity relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing …

This volume provides an understanding of firms' R&D and innovation strategies and their economy-wide consequences. It … heterogeneous ways in which firms organize and undertake R&D and innovation activities. It emphasizes innovation strategies of … innovating firms, and reflects that innovation efforts do not represent a uniform type of expenditure. Organized into three parts …