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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-lines influence the likelihood that a firm will be a persistent exporter and the productivity growth of such persistently exporting firms. Using a bivariate logit model and a dynamic...

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What Do We Learn From Schumpeterian Growth Theory?

Aghion, Philippe; Akcigit, Ufuk; Howitt, Peter - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

Schumpeterian growth theory has “operationalized” Schumpeter’s notion of creative destruction by developing models based on this concept. These models shed light on several aspects of the growth process which could not be properly addressed by alternative theories. In this survey, we focus...

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Does Knowledge Diffusion between University and Industry Increase Innovativeness?

Lööf, Hans; Broström, Anders - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004

This paper rigorously explores the impact of firm’s collaboration with universities on innovation. Specifically, using a representative dataset of manufacturing and service firms we have applied recent matching techniques to examine the hypotheses that whether academic knowledge has a positive...

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The Impact of Public Funding on Private R&D investment: New Evidence from a Firm Level Innovation Study

Lööf, Hans; Heshmati, Almas - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004

This paper investigates the effectiveness of a public innovation policy aimed at stimulating private R&D investment. The research will examine whether public funding increases the total spending on research or merely displaces funding from private sources. The empirical analysis is based on the...

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Inside the Black Box of Regional Development - human capital, the creative class and tolerance

Florida, Richard; Mellander, Charlotta; Stolarick, Kevin - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

wages, and also to isolate the effects of tolerance, consumer service amenities, and the university on its distribution. We … outperforms conventional educational attainment measures in accounting for regional labor productivity measured as wages, while … both human capital and the creative class as well as with wages and income. …

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Innovation and credit constraints: Evidence from Swedish exporting firms

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

Existing studies associates financial constraints among innovators to small, young and high-tech firms. High adjustment cost implies that firms save money by smoothing innovation spending across the business cycle if they have available resources. This paper examines whether previous findings on...

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Innovation and entrepreneurship in the global economy

Karlsson, Charlie; Gråsjö, Urban; Wixe, Sofia - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014

Much of the discussion about globalization has been held at a rather superficial macro-economic level. Discussions about globalization dealing with the meso- and micro-economic level, i.e. the level of regions and companies, have been much less common. Many of the discussions of globalization at...

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Law, Stock Markets, and Innovation

Brown, James R.; Martinsson, Gustav; Petersen, Bruce C. - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2015

We study a broad sample of firms across 32 countries and find that strong shareholder protections and better access to stock market financing lead to substantially higher long-run rates of R&D investment, particularly in small firms, but are unimportant for fixed capital investment. Credit...

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Knowledge, innovation and space

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

This paper provides an overview of relevant topics in contemporary research concerned with global, national, regional and local knowledge and innovation dynamics. In particular, we highlight how the global scene is changing in the contemporary world economy that we char-acterize as a knowledge...

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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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