the invariant character of regional development and innovation phenomena, such as long-term population growth, export …

recurrent knowledge investment through innovation and potential spillovers from the local milieu. The majority of the exporting … that does not engage in innovation and has scarce access to external knowledge, the level of productivity is 2-12 percent … higher for an innovative firm, depending on how innovation is defined and where the innovator is located. The annual long …

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 …

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

stages. First, an invention or innovation is generated, and then it is developed and commercialized to create benefits for … innovation inputs to processes that generate regional productivity and productivity gains. We also find that the most effective …

research and in particular to innovation, a key feature of economic competitiveness. Most of the previous studies have dealt … place and the local and non-local networks of such milieus. Both the local ‘buzz’ related to interaction and learning …

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 …