Tavassoli, Sam; Carbonara, Nunzia - In: Small Business Economics 43 (2014) 2, pp. 493-509
This paper analyses the effect of variety and intensity of knowledge on the innovation of regions. Employing data for … Swedish functional regions, the paper tests the role of the variety (related and unrelated) and intensity of (1) internal … innovation, as measured by patent applications. The empirical analysis provides robust evidence that both the variety and …