This paper analyzes the role of regional characteristics on innovation persistency among firms. Using five waves of the … Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behavior of firms over a ten-year period, i.e. between 2002 …

innovations as well as a higher innovation intensity. Interestingly, the results are of equal magnitude in the manufacturing and … services industries. The results support the view that big data analytics have the potential to enable innovation. …