This chapter intends to demonstrate that the Stockholm region is the key centre for knowledge development, innovations … and intellectual creativity in Sweden. The region is an attractor for individuals with ambitions and talents in political … tasks associated with a job. Moreover, the knowledge intensity of an ur-ban region can be related to the absorption capacity …

questioning the view that R&D (and formal knowledge in general) equates innovation and innovation equates regional growth. We … several knowledge and innovation indicators, ranging from R&D expenditures, patent data, to newly released data on different … possible different attitudes and patterns of innovation that we control for, such as regional preconditions for knowledge and …

This paper presents evidence on the spatial distribution and effects of urban agglomeration on firm innovation. It uses … urban economies of scale in augmenting the knowledge flows that generate innovation. … a unique dataset that consistently defines city boundaries and identifies firms' innovation-related activities across 25 …

This paper presents evidence on the spatial distribution and effects of urban agglomeration on firm innovation. It uses … urban economies of scale in augmenting the knowledge flows that generate innovation … a unique dataset that consistently defines city boundaries and identifies firms’ innovation-related activities across 25 …

Since the Lisbon agenda in 2000, Europe stated the goal to become the most advanced knowledge economy in the world … presence of localized externalities in the knowledge accumulation process, this policy may produce distortive and unwanted … average level of knowledge activity accompanied by a huge degree of internal territorial disparity. The aim of this paper is …

with a more robust technological knowledge network structure exhibit higher levels of resilience with respect to changes in …

agglomeration rich in knowledge resources is more conducive to firm growth than being located in a region that is less endowed with … knowledge resources. These results suggest the economic value of location as a conduit for accessing external knowledge …

drives entrepreneurship and creativity scholars have recently highlighted the role of culture. Culture defines a set of … problem-solving and how they share knowledge and perceive market risk and chances. Since the 1990s a vast body of literature … has dealing with the role of culture in entrepreneurship and creativity within different contexts or levels of analysis, e …

Regional knowledge spaces are heterogeneous, and the structure of these knowledge spaces can play a significant role in …

that knowledge flows are bounded in space. …In this paper, we analyze the relationship between knowledge accessibility and regional economic growth in Sweden. The … research question we ask in this paper is the following: can the variation between regions in knowledge accessibility in a …