This paper analyzes the role of regional characteristics on innovation persistency among firms. Using five waves of the … Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behavior of firms over a ten-year period, i.e. between 2002 … thickness, and extent of knowledge spillovers. Using a dynamic Probit model, we found that, in general, those firms located in …

dissemination of innovations in regions via spillover effect (NESTA Business growth and innovation, 2009). Fast-growing companies … may contribute more than 50% to GDP growth (Europe INNOVA Gazelles Innovation Panel, 2008). There are several works, that … explain growth of firms as a stochastic phenomenon (Gibrat, 1929), or as a combination of endogenous (Penrose, 1955) and …

"unmistakable claims" about the need to build extensive infrastructure for modernization, innovation and greater efficiency. This …

There is a substantial heterogeneity in productivity when comparing individual firms. However, even when heterogeneity … importance of firms' heterogeneity compared with that of location. This is a point to be addressed on empirical grounds: location … is expected to affect firms, but there is no evidence quantifying the magnitude of these two effects across Europe. How …

This paper assesses the extent to which cooperation impacts innovation performance of firms in rural regions … firms. For policymakers, this implies that an exclusive focus on R&D-based regional innovation policies may be neither … spatial and functional dimension of cooperation. Generic results for the German region of Lower Bavaria show that firms do not …

This paper draws on a sample of innovative Catalan firms to identify the effects of the two main sources of innovation … 3,267 firms from the CIS-4 for the years 2002-2004. We compare empirical results when applying usual OLS and quantile … regression techniques. Our results suggest the different patterns attributable to the two sources of innovation as we move up …