have a larger fraction of skilled workers, higher R&D to sales ratios and established networks to knowledge sources in … several different countries. As illustrated by the so-called ‘anchor-tenant’ hypothesis, they can be described as “knowledge …

-ups from knowledge intensive business service (KIBS) firms with persistent R&D investments have a significantly increased … start in the same firm, indicating the importance of inherited related knowledge. The findings suggest that R&D intensive …

The link between proximity and innovation has been dwelled upon extensively in the literature. A regional economic … successful regional innovation system. In this paper it is proposed that the relevant link to be studied is rather that between … accessibility and innovation. Although accessibility is a key factor in facilitating the processes stressed to be important for …

regions. How such innovations are created and how successful innovation processes can be initiated are therefore extremely … has been termed regional innovation systems. The actors in the regional innovation systems include customers, producers … innovation systems has focused on high-tech clusters in large metropolitan regions well equipped with a broad spectrum of all …

greater when there is related variety in their ‘knowledge base’. We also find that related variety in industries is positive …

regional export flows. Since the development of each export product may be assumed to be associated with innovation activity …

supports the view that comparative advantages can be created by investments in technology and knowledge. Export flows from … pattern of investments in (and creation of) technology and knowledge, as such investments shape export specialization patterns …

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 … in the paper is that the potential for human interaction a various spatial scales transforms into potential knowledge …

Knowledge is maintained as a core variable for growth in a large set of contemporary theories. In this paper, we … analyze the relationship between knowledge accessibility and regional growth. The knowledge resource used in our model R … actual travel time distances. Using data at the municipality level in Sweden, the hypothesis that knowledge accessibility has …

-specific Poisson process, is assumed to be influenced by the firm’s past experience and cumulated knowledge assets. The model assigns a … consistent with the model. First, the modeled innovation process imply a persistent distribution of heterogeneous firms. Second …-dependent stochastic innovation process. …