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Firm Strategy, Location and MNE-networks

Lööf, Hans; Johansson, Borje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010

This paper asks three explicit questions, where the first one concerns the impact of a firm’s choice of innovation strategy and knowledge resources. The study aims at confirming that firms with a strategy with R&D persistency have a markedly higher productivity, profitability and wage level...

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Productivity of and Returns to Knowledge Investments

Andersson, Åke E - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

Information and knowledge are essential to the decision making of firms. However, information is a primitive in the formation of knowledge. Information and the related concepts of risk and surprise are primarily of importance for rational decision making while knowledge is a form of...

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Knowledge Accessibility and Regional Economic Growth

Andersson, Martin; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2005

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 given period explain the variation in the growth...

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Regional Knowledge Accessibility and Regional Economic Growth

Karlsson, Carlie; Gråsjö, Urban; Andersson, Martin - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2006

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&D conducted at universities and in companies. A precise...

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The knowledge filter, Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth

Carlsson, Bo; Acs, Zoltan; Audretsch, David; … - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth in the United States over the last 150 years. According to the “new growth theory,” investments in knowledge and human capital generate economic growth via spillovers of knowledge. But the...

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Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Growth - past experience, current knowledge and policy implications

Braunerhjelm, Pontus - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010

Considerable advances, even breakthroughs, have been made during the last decades in our understanding of the relationship between knowledge and growth on one hand, and entrepreneurship and growth on the other. Similarly, more profound insights have also been gained as to how entrepreneurship,...

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The Role of Accessibility for the Performance of Regional Innovation Systems

Andersson, Martin; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004

innovations, the relationship between accessibility and innovation is surprisingly unexploited. Scrutinization of the relationship …

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Regional Innovation Systems in Small & Medium-Sized Regions A Critical Review & Assessment

Andersson, Martin; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004

Continuous product and process innovations are prerequisites for sustainable competitiveness of both nations and … regions. How such innovations are created and how successful innovation processes can be initiated are therefore extremely … important questions. In recent years, it has been recognized that innovations are localized. They are now believed to be the …

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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship

Acs, Zoltan; Audrestch, David; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; … - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

Contemporary theories of entrepreneurship generally focus on the recognition of opportunities and the decision to exploit them. While the prevailing view in the entrepreneurship literature is that opportunities are exogenous, the most prevalent theory of economic growth suggests that...

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Innovation, Technology and Knowledge

Karlsson, Charlie; Johansson, Börje; Norman, Therese - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2011

This paper outlines a set of fundamental changes in the global economy that have altered the nature of the innovation process, brought about global challenges, and stimulated cross border phenomena and network formation responses. These changes has brought about an increase of the demand for...

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