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

concludes that the production of high quality product varieties is intensive in knowledge and R&D. This study contributes to … previous research by addressing the influence of spatial knowledge flows on the observed patterns of regional quality … knowledge flows from R&D activities. These knowledge transfers are modeled by accessibility variables, which deduce the presence …

model with fixed R&D cost predicts that spatial knowledge spillovers generates external economies of scale in R&D activities … export diversity in regions is tested in cross-regional regression models. Since knowledge cannot be regarded as a spatially …

external knowledge resources. The paper introduces the notion variety triplet to distinguish individual export varieties, where … and external knowledge of local industries influence the industry’s scope and value of export varieties. The paper … contributes to existing knowledge firstly by introducing variables that measure a local industry’s access to external supply of …

Recent literature on firm innovation emphasize the importance of combinations of different knowledge sources in … innovation processes. Moreover, the literature on firm collaboration has evolved stepwise: (1) knowledge networks tend to be … important. By using data from a survey on innovation and collaboration of 636 firms in the county of Jönköping, Sweden, we find …