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Creating Innovations, Productivity and Growth - the efficiency of Icelandic firms

Ho, Dong-huyn; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

service firms typically use excessive resources in their production process. A remarkably weak performance in transforming R …

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Multinationals in the Knowledge Economy - a case study of AstraZeneca in Sweden

Andersson, Martin; Johansson, Börje; Karlsson, Charlie; … - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008

This report presents a case study of the role of a large R&D intensive multinational company for a small open economy. The case study examines the role of AstraZeneca in the Swedish economy, i.e. an economy dominated by multinational companies. The purpose of the report is to analyze the...

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How does University Collaboration Contribute to Successful R&D Management?

Broström, Anders; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008

The issue of through what processes R&D collaboration with universities affects a firms’ innovation performance remains …

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Innovation, Metropolitan and Productivity

Lööf, Hans; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2011

This paper assesses the contribution to productivity of firms’ internal innovation efforts and spatially-specific factors. A dynamic GMM-estimator is applied to a panel of close to 3,000 firms located in 81 Swedish regions and observed over a 10-year period. The magnitude of benefits from the...

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R&D-Persistency, Metropolitan Externalities and Productivity

Lööf, Hans; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010

correspond to asymmetries in the performance of firms with regard to productivity level and growth as well as innovativeness …

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R&D Strategy, Metropolitan Externalities and Productivity

Lööf, Hans; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

This paper studies the influence of metropolitan externalities on productivity for different types of long run R&D engagement based on information from the Community Innovation Survey. We apply a dynamic general method of moments model to a panel of manufacturing and service firms with different...

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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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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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Equity Financing and Innovation: is Europe different from the United States?

Martinsson, Gustav - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

During the mid and late 1990s young, high-tech firms in the U.S. experienced a supply shift in both internal and external equity fueling a finance driven boom in corporate R&D. I estimate dynamic R&D regression models for high-tech firms, separately for the U.K. and Continental Europe, and find...

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Innovation Strategy and Firm Performance What is the long-run impact of persistent R&D?

Börje, Johansson; Hans, Lööf - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010

There are systematic long-run differences in the performance of firms explained by the R&D-strategy that each firm … employs. Controlling for unobservable heterogeneity, past performance and other firm characteristics, this paper shows that … firms. The results are similar when firm performance is measured as total sales or exports per labor input. …

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