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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

In this paper, we focus on the connections between creativity, social capital and economic performance and growth. Our … working hypothesis is that both creativity and social capital influences the economy, both each per se, but also through their … influence on each other. We regard creativity as one of the sources of entrepreneurship and innovation (although creativity also …

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Agglomeration and the Spatial Distribution of Creativity

Andersson, Roland; Quigley, John. M; Wilhelmsson, Mats - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2005

This paper analyzes the spatial distribution of “creativity” -- the production of new knowledge. We analyze commercial … and spatial factors in influencing creativity: Patent activity is increased in larger and more dense labor markets and in … creativity is greater in labor markets with more diverse employment bases and in those which contain a larger share of national …

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Skill and Cross-National Economic Performance

Florida, Richard; Mellander, Charlotta - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010

The role of human capital in shaping cross-national economic performance is well-understood. But human capital is an indirect measure of skill, based on educational attainment. We introduce and test a more direct measure of skill, based on work that is actually performed, measured by occupation....

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Clusters, Networks and Creativity

Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010

An extensive amount of studies have been devoted to the importance of the creative process. Creativity is critical to … with the creativity of individuals, the creativity of teams and the importance of the organisational context. This chapter … creative activities. The milieu will play an important role in creativity by supplying both a large number of incompatible …

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Foreign Investors as Change Agents: The Swedish Firm Experience

Fogel, Kathy S.; Lee, Kevin K.; Lee, Wayne Y.; … - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

Institutional theory suggests that informal institutions effectively constrain human behavior. Culturally embedded norms and values align corporate governance with socially acceptable outcomes. We argue that active foreign investors can act as agents of change in corporate governance....

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The Entrepreneruship-Philanthropy Nexus: Implication for internationalization

Acs, Zoltan; Braunerhjelm, Pontus - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2005

This paper examines how Sweden and the United States have been impacted by philanthropic activities, commercialization of university-based knowledge and international entrepreneurship. The analysis comprises a detailed case study of Swedish and U.S. universities, as well as a statistical...

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How do Organisational and Cognitive Distances Shape Firms’ Interactions with Universities and Public Research Institutes?

Broström, Anders; McKelvey, Maureen - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

This paper examines how the institutional set-up of public research organisations (PROs) affects how firms are able to utilise direct interaction with publicly employed researchers. We argue that the role that PRO interaction has to play in the firm’s innovation processes depend on the...

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Innovation and SMEs Patent Propensity in Korea

Han, Junghee; Heshmati, Almas - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2015

This paper analyzes the patent propensity as an outcome of innovative activities of regional SMEs. To achieve the aims, we apply robust regression analysis to estimate the models to test 5 research hypotheses using 263 firm level data located at Gwangju region in Korea. Our empirical results...

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Does Labour Mobility Foster Innovation? Evidence from Sweden

Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Ding, Ding; Thulin, Per - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2015

By utilising a Swedish unique, matched employer-employee dataset that has been pooled with firm-level patent application data, we provide new evidence that knowledge workers’ mobility has a positive and strongly significant impact on firm innovation output, as measured by firm patent...

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An Innovation Policy Framework: Bridging the gap between industrial dynamics and growth

Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Henrekson, Magnus - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2015

This paper examines policy measures that foster the creation of innovations with high inherent potential and that simultaneously provide the right incentives for individuals to create and expand firms that disseminate such innovations in the form of highly valued products. In so doing, we...

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