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Urban Regions in Europe – Preconditions and Strategies for Growth and Development in the Global Economy

Gråsjö, Urban; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

creativity, innovation and subsequent economic growth in the economy. There-fore, it is important to focus policies in Europe on … ideas for a new type of spatial policies in Europe focusing on innovation and growth. For in-stance, there is a need to take … real innovation nodes by developing more elite universities with a proper R&D funding and a ca-pacity to compete with the …

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Innovation and Exports of German Business Services Enterprises: First evidence from a new type of firm data

Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

This paper contributes to the literature by providing the first evidence on the link between innovation activities … convincing attempt to investigate the direction of the causal link between exports and innovation activities. …

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Firm Knowledge, Neighborhood Diversity and Innovation

Wixe, Sofia - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014

This paper tests the importance of firm level knowledge and neighborhood diversity, as a source for localized knowledge spillovers, on firms propensity to innovate. Diversity is measured in terms of industries as well as employee education and occupation, of which the results show a positive...

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Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce? Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...

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Creativity as an integral element of social capital and its role for economic performance

Westlund, Hans; Andersson, Martin; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

influence on each other. We regard creativity as one of the sources of entrepreneurship and innovation (although creativity also … and values being distributed in them, social capital can promote entrepreneurship and innovation and thus economic growth …, but social capital can have an inhibiting effect on entrepreneurship and innovation. Social capital can contribute to …

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Persistent Exporter Performance: The importance of internal, local and global knowledge

Lööf, Hans; Nabavi, Pardis; Cook, Gary; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

In this paper we investigate how various innovation strategies, local knowledge sources and global knowledge pipe …

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Knowledge, innovation and space

Karlsson, Charlie; Johansson, Börje; Kobayashi, Kiyoshi; … - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014

and local knowledge and innovation dynamics. In particular, we highlight how the global scene is changing in the … innovation in the large urban agglomerations in the old and in new industrialized countries with their concentrations of …

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Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Economic Dynamism: Lessons from a Comparison of the United States and Sweden

Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Henrekson, Magnus - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

particular importance for entrepreneurship, innovation-based firm growth and its ensuing impact on the economy. Particular …

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Internal and External Knowledge – Innovation of Export Varieties.

Johansson, Börje; Johansson, Sara; Wallin, Tina - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

Firms in local industries maintain their capability to generate innovations by simultaneously exploiting internal and external knowledge resources. The paper introduces the notion variety triplet to distinguish individual export varieties, where a triplet is a unique combination of a firm, a...

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The Evolving Domain of Entrepreneurship Research

Carlsson, Bo; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; McKelvey, Maureen; … - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

Research on entrepreneurship has flourished in recent years and is evolving rapidly. This paper explores the history of entrepreneurship research, how the research domain has evolved, and its current status as an academic field. The need to concretize these issues stems partly from a general...

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