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REGIONAL POLICY AS CHANGE MANAGEMENT - a theoretical discussion with empirical illustrations

Andersson, Martin; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2011

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

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Learning and Productivity of Swedish Exporting Firms: The importance of Innovation Efforts and the Geography of Innovation

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

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 …

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Cross-country difference in R&D productivity Comparison of 11 European economies

Lööf, Hans; Savin, Maxim - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

the argument that innovation systems are important for an industry’s capacity to generate new patentable knowledge. …

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The Impact of R&D Activities on Exports of German Business Services Enterprises: First evidence from a continuous treatment approach.

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

This study uses newly available representative data from German business services firms and a continuous treatment approach based on the generalized propensity score to test for a causal effect of R&D activities (measured by the share of engineers and natural scientists in all employees) on the...

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INCREASING RETURN TO SMART CITIES

Lööf, Hans; Nabavi, Pardis - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

Increased urbanization, global warming and sustainable growth belong to the major contemporary policy challenges. Today cities are home to more than 50% of the world population, the largest 600 urban centers generate about 60% of global GDP, and the agglomerated areas are responsible for 75% of...

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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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How to Persistently Finance Innovation: A Panel-Data Study on Exporting Firms in Sweden

Lööf, Hans; Nabavi, Pardis - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014

This paper provides estimates of negative binomial regressions for high-leveraged and non-high-leveraged exporting firms in Sweden over a business cycle that contains two boom periods and two recession periods. The contemporaneous cash flow coefficients are positive and statistically...

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THE FATE OF PATENTS: AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OF PATENTS AS IPO SIGNALS OF REPUTATIONAL ADVANTAGE

Basir, Nada; Beyhaghi, Mehdi; Mohammadi, Ali - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014

Drawing on the reputation literature and signaling theory, this article builds on work that looks at patents as reputation signals. We build a multi-industry database of patents that expire due to lack of maintenance fee payments and test for a relationship between these patents and the firm’s...

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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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