This report is a summary of results from the project “High-tech spin-offs in the Nordic countries”. It is intended to be a non-technical presentation of the approach, the main results and policy conclusions of the project. It is accompanied by two larger volumes giving the full details and...

Foreliggende rapport inngår som delrapport 2 i prosjektet ”Instituttsektorens betydning for FoU i næringslivet” som STEP-gruppen og NIFU gjennomfører med finansiering fra Norges forskningsråd (FAKTA-programmet). Rapporten er i hovedsak en nærmere dokumentasjon av instituttsektorens...

In this report we present the results from the project “High-tech spin-offs in the Nordic countries”. The present report describes how it is possible to identify and classify changes in establishments and enterprises utilising administrative register data, and compares results across Sweden,...

How does Norwegian innovation performance compare with other countries, especially with respect to small firms? This report explores this question, using data from the Community Innovation survey for 1992. We look at two broad issues. Firstly, we explore R&D performance, where we try to go...

This report analyses to what extent register data on employees can be utilised to study stocks and flows of personnel in a national innovation systems perspective. The registers contain information on each single employee in the three countries in the study (Sweden, Norway and Finland),...

The EU commission initiated a large-scale project for the collection of innovation data on a European basis. The aim was to create a co-ordinated ";European Innovation Survey";. The project began in 1992 with the development and testing of questionnaires, and was followed in 1993-94 by the...

I denne rapporten presenterer vi resultatene av en empirisk basert analyse av forhold vi mener har betydning for innovasjonsvirksomheten i Møre og RomsdalStrukturen i sysselsettingen i Møre og Romsdal har i grove trekk mye felles med hva vi finner for hele landet; tjenestenæringer dominerer,...