Department for Human Capital and Innovation. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of …

In light of its importance of innovation on the political agenda it is necessary to provide guidance to decision makers … how innovation can effectively be fostered in practice and to disentangle and evaluate the effects of the determinants … suggested by the literature. This thesis focuses on the causal evaluation of three determinants of innovation that can all be …

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 …