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| A Comparative Perspective on Innovation and Productivity in Manufacturing and Services |
0 |
0 |
0 |
280 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
686 |
| A New Approach to Estimation of the R&D-Innovation-Productivity Relationship |
0 |
0 |
0 |
67 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
131 |
| A New Approach to Estimation of the R&D-Innovation-Productivity Relationship |
0 |
0 |
1 |
132 |
3 |
3 |
6 |
180 |
| A New Approach to Estimation of the R&D-Innovation-Productivity Relationship |
1 |
1 |
1 |
208 |
3 |
4 |
12 |
410 |
| A Portrait of the Innovative Firm as a Small Patenting Entrepreneur |
0 |
0 |
0 |
138 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
335 |
| Agglomeration and Productivity - evidence from firm-level data |
1 |
1 |
2 |
340 |
6 |
15 |
20 |
762 |
| Are Services Different Exporters? |
0 |
0 |
0 |
73 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
363 |
| Board of directors and export-spillovers: What is the impact on extensive margins of trade? |
0 |
0 |
0 |
38 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
41 |
| CDM 20 Years After |
0 |
0 |
0 |
112 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
162 |
| CEO Duality and Firm Performance Revisited |
0 |
1 |
7 |
99 |
0 |
2 |
18 |
314 |
| Creating Innovations, Productivity and Growth - the efficiency of Icelandic firms |
0 |
0 |
0 |
97 |
1 |
1 |
6 |
349 |
| Cross-country difference in R&D productivity Comparison of 11 European economies |
0 |
1 |
1 |
117 |
1 |
3 |
5 |
170 |
| Directed Technical Change in Clean Energy: Evidence from the Solar Industry |
0 |
0 |
1 |
136 |
1 |
3 |
8 |
236 |
| Does Knowledge Diffusion between University and Industry Increase Innovativeness? |
0 |
0 |
0 |
422 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
1,118 |
| Does Ownership Matter? The Impact of Foreign Takeovers on Innovation and Productivity Performance |
0 |
0 |
0 |
173 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
560 |
| Dynamic Optimal Capital Structure and Technical Change |
0 |
0 |
1 |
85 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1,310 |
| Dynamic Optimal Capital Structure and Technological Change |
0 |
0 |
0 |
114 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
450 |
| Economic impact of STEM immigrant workers |
0 |
0 |
0 |
34 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
95 |
| Economic impact of STEM immigrant workers |
0 |
0 |
0 |
22 |
4 |
5 |
8 |
95 |
| Estimating the Wage Premia of Refugee Immigrants: Lessons from Sweden |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
14 |
| Estimating the wage premia of refugee immigrants |
0 |
0 |
6 |
20 |
1 |
1 |
18 |
60 |
| Estimating the wage premia of refugee immigrants |
0 |
0 |
4 |
13 |
3 |
6 |
25 |
38 |
| Estimating the wage premia of refugee immigrants with coarsened exact matching and recentered influence function quantile regressions |
0 |
0 |
1 |
15 |
1 |
3 |
4 |
26 |
| Estimating the wage premia of refugee immigrants: Lessons from Sweden |
0 |
0 |
1 |
14 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
20 |
| Estimating the wage premia of refugee immigrants: Lessons from Sweden |
0 |
0 |
0 |
15 |
0 |
1 |
5 |
24 |
| Estimating the wage premia of refugee immigrants: Lessons from Sweden |
0 |
0 |
0 |
53 |
1 |
2 |
5 |
197 |
| Exporters, Spin-outs and Firm Performance |
0 |
0 |
0 |
64 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
140 |
| FDI Inflows to Sweden Consequences for Innovation and Renewal |
0 |
0 |
0 |
277 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1,062 |
| Finance and Innovative Investment in Environmental Technology: The Case of Sweden |
0 |
0 |
0 |
129 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
219 |
| Firm Level Innovation and Productivity - Is there a Common Story Across Countries? |
0 |
1 |
5 |
487 |
1 |
4 |
14 |
1,267 |
| Firm Level Innovation and Productivity: Is there a Common Story Across Countries? |
0 |
0 |
0 |
159 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
566 |
| Firm Location, Corporate Structure, R&D Investment, Innovation and Productivity |
0 |
0 |
0 |
318 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
1,168 |
| Firm Strategy, Location and MNE-networks |
0 |
0 |
0 |
74 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
162 |
| Firm location, Corporate Structure, R&D Investment, Innovation and Productivity |
0 |
0 |
0 |
98 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
382 |
| Global Location Patterns of R&D Investments |
0 |
0 |
0 |
141 |
1 |
3 |
6 |
432 |
| How can firm benefit from access to knowledge-intensive producer services? |
0 |
0 |
0 |
74 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
181 |
| How does University Collaboration Contribute to Successful R&D Management? |
0 |
0 |
1 |
290 |
0 |
1 |
13 |
1,002 |
| How to Persistently Finance Innovation: A Panel-Data Study on Exporting Firms in Sweden |
0 |
0 |
0 |
51 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
149 |
| INCREASING RETURN TO SMART CITIES |
0 |
0 |
0 |
126 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
261 |
| INNOVATION ACTIVITIES EXPLAINED BY FIRM ATTRIBUTES AND LOCATION |
0 |
0 |
0 |
219 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
604 |
| INNOVATION STRATEGIES, EXTERNAL KNOWLEDGE AND PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH |
0 |
0 |
0 |
71 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
102 |
| Impact of Economic Crises on Innovation Activity: Firm Level Evidence from Patent Data |
0 |
0 |
1 |
98 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
189 |
| Imports, Productivity and the Origin Markets -the role of knowledge-intensive economies |
0 |
0 |
1 |
131 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
283 |
| Incorporating ESG into optimal stock portfolios for the global timber & forestry industry |
0 |
0 |
1 |
36 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
59 |
| Inherited Advantage and Spinoff Success |
0 |
0 |
0 |
50 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
130 |
| Innovation Behaviour and Productivity Performance in the Nordic Region Does Foreign Ownership Matter? |
0 |
0 |
0 |
171 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
498 |
| Innovation Strategies Combining Internal and External Knowledge |
0 |
0 |
1 |
79 |
2 |
3 |
9 |
191 |
| Innovation Strategies, External Knowledge and Productivity Growth |
0 |
0 |
0 |
170 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
204 |
| Innovation Strategy and Firm Performance What is the long-run impact of persistent R&D? |
0 |
0 |
1 |
223 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
451 |
| Innovation and Performance in Manufacturing Industries: A Comparison of the Nordic Countries |
0 |
0 |
0 |
870 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
2,390 |
| Innovation and credit constraints: Evidence from Swedish exporting firms |
0 |
0 |
0 |
71 |
3 |
4 |
6 |
176 |
| Innovation and employment in sub-Saharan Africa: New evidence from the World Bank Enterprise Survey |
0 |
0 |
3 |
20 |
1 |
2 |
13 |
25 |
| Innovation by start-up firms: The influence of the board of directors |
0 |
0 |
1 |
54 |
1 |
1 |
6 |
125 |
| Innovation by start-up firms: The influence of the board of directors for knowledge spillovers |
0 |
0 |
0 |
52 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
121 |
| Innovation, Metropolitan and Productivity |
0 |
0 |
0 |
55 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
150 |
| Innovation, R&D and Productivity - assessing alternative specifications of CDM-models |
0 |
0 |
1 |
581 |
2 |
3 |
5 |
1,433 |
| Innovation, Spillovers and Productivity Growth: A Dynamic Panel Data Approach |
0 |
1 |
2 |
103 |
1 |
4 |
5 |
124 |
| Internal Finance and Patents - evidence from firm-level data |
1 |
1 |
1 |
71 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
186 |
| Investment and Performance of Firms: Correlation or Causality? |
0 |
0 |
2 |
217 |
0 |
1 |
6 |
664 |
| Is Corporate Social Responsibility investing a free lunch? The relationship between ESG, tail risk, and upside potential of stocks before and during the COVID-19 crisis |
0 |
0 |
0 |
31 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
86 |
| Key Characteristics of the Small Innovative Firm |
0 |
0 |
0 |
254 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
527 |
| Knowledge Capital and Performance Heterogeneity: A Firm Level Innovation Study |
0 |
0 |
0 |
108 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
1,530 |
| Learning and Productivity of Swedish Exporting Firms: The importance of Innovation Efforts and the Geography of Innovation |
0 |
0 |
0 |
98 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
196 |
| Learning-by-Exporting Revisited - the role of intensity and persistence |
0 |
0 |
0 |
158 |
2 |
2 |
6 |
371 |
| Migrant STEM Entrepreneurs |
0 |
0 |
1 |
38 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
84 |
| Migrant STEM Entrepreneurs |
0 |
0 |
0 |
31 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
73 |
| Multinational Enterprises, Spillovers, Innovation and Productivity |
0 |
1 |
1 |
339 |
0 |
1 |
6 |
907 |
| Multinational Firms and Innovation: The Role of R&D Collaboration, Markets and Ownership |
1 |
1 |
2 |
275 |
2 |
2 |
4 |
799 |
| Multinationals in the Knowledge Economy - a case study of AstraZeneca in Sweden |
0 |
0 |
1 |
267 |
0 |
1 |
9 |
998 |
| New ventures in Cleantech: opportunities, capabilities and innovation outcomes |
0 |
0 |
0 |
74 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
143 |
| Occupational Sorting and Wage Gaps of Refugees |
0 |
0 |
0 |
28 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
90 |
| Occupational Sorting and Wage Gaps of Refugees |
0 |
0 |
0 |
17 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
42 |
| Occupational Sorting and Wage Gaps of Refugees |
0 |
0 |
0 |
14 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
36 |
| Occupational sorting and wage gaps of refugees |
0 |
0 |
1 |
14 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
32 |
| Occupational sorting and wage gaps of refugees |
0 |
0 |
0 |
22 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
44 |
| Offshoring R&D |
0 |
0 |
0 |
45 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
205 |
| Offshoring R&D |
0 |
0 |
0 |
40 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
110 |
| Offshoring and Innovation Capabilities: Evidence from Swedish Manufacturing |
0 |
0 |
0 |
55 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
125 |
| On the Relationship between Innovation and Performance: A sensitivity Analysis |
0 |
0 |
0 |
754 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
2,069 |
| Orsaker till och effekter av växande löneskillnader: Utbud av ny teknik och efterfrågan på kunskap |
0 |
0 |
0 |
24 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
162 |
| Outside Board Directors and Start-Up Firms’ Innovation |
0 |
0 |
0 |
62 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
157 |
| Patenting and Entrepreneurial Spawning: An Innovation Strategy Approach |
0 |
0 |
0 |
53 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
159 |
| Persistent Exporter Performance: The importance of internal, local and global knowledge |
0 |
0 |
0 |
48 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
107 |
| Productivity and International Trade - firm-level evidence from a small open economy |
0 |
0 |
1 |
230 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
945 |
| Productivity of refugee workers and implications for innovation and growth |
0 |
0 |
1 |
32 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
74 |
| R&D Strategies and Entrepreneurial Spawning |
0 |
0 |
0 |
127 |
1 |
3 |
5 |
391 |
| R&D Strategy, Metropolitan Externalities and Productivity |
0 |
0 |
0 |
44 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
90 |
| R&D-Persistency, Metropolitan Externalities and Productivity |
0 |
0 |
0 |
66 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
118 |
| Refugee immigrants, occupational sorting and wage gaps |
0 |
0 |
0 |
40 |
2 |
3 |
7 |
183 |
| Refugees in Sweden: Economic integration and wage convergence |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
36 |
| Science-based emission targets and risk-adjusted portfolio return: An analysis using global SBTi-validated stocks |
1 |
4 |
19 |
74 |
4 |
11 |
52 |
95 |
| Small Nordic Enterprises - developing IPR in global competition |
0 |
0 |
0 |
61 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
286 |
| Sources of Finance, R&D Investment and Productivity: Correlation or Causality? |
0 |
0 |
0 |
410 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
1,586 |
| Survival, Productivity and Growth of New Ventures across Locations |
0 |
0 |
0 |
68 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
150 |
| Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth for Swedish Manufacturing and Service Industries |
0 |
0 |
1 |
119 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
328 |
| Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth for Swedish Manufacturing and Service Industries |
0 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
62 |
| Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth for Swedish Manufacturing and Service Industries |
0 |
0 |
0 |
74 |
1 |
1 |
6 |
267 |
| Technology Spillovers and Innovation - the importance of domestic and foreign sources |
0 |
0 |
0 |
206 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
710 |
| The Dynamics of Firm Growth - a re-examination |
0 |
0 |
0 |
110 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
177 |
| The EU’s Competitive Advantage in the 'Clean-Energy Arms Race' |
0 |
0 |
0 |
10 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
11 |
| The EU’s competitive advantage in the "clean-energy arms race" |
0 |
0 |
1 |
19 |
2 |
3 |
6 |
22 |
| The Geography of Innovation and Entrepreneurship |
0 |
0 |
1 |
128 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
155 |
| The Global-Local Interplay of MNE and Non-MNE Firms |
0 |
0 |
0 |
104 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
1,716 |
| The Icelandic Economy: A Victim of the Financial Crisis or Simply Inefficient? |
0 |
0 |
0 |
38 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
168 |
| The Icelandic Economy: a victim of the financial crisis or simply inefficient? |
0 |
0 |
0 |
94 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
308 |
| The Impact of ESG on Stocks’ Downside Risk and Risk Adjusted Return |
1 |
3 |
13 |
378 |
12 |
23 |
59 |
1,187 |
| The Impact of Firm’s R&D Strategy on Profit and Productivity |
0 |
0 |
0 |
377 |
2 |
3 |
8 |
1,034 |
| The Impact of Public Funding on Private R&D investment: New Evidence from a Firm Level Innovation Study |
0 |
0 |
0 |
413 |
0 |
3 |
7 |
1,134 |
| The Impact of Public Funds on Private R&D Investment: New Evidence from a Firm Level Innovation Study |
0 |
0 |
3 |
218 |
0 |
1 |
14 |
791 |
| The Influence of Clustering on MNE Location and Innovation in Great Britain |
0 |
0 |
0 |
36 |
1 |
3 |
4 |
166 |
| The Innovation and Productivity Effect of Foreign Take-Over of National Assets |
0 |
0 |
0 |
61 |
1 |
3 |
4 |
235 |
| The Innovative Performance of Foreign-owned Enterprises in Small Open Economies |
0 |
0 |
0 |
92 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
266 |
| The contribution of foreign-born STEM workers to the knowledge-intensive economy: Evidence from Sweden |
0 |
0 |
0 |
67 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
111 |
| The impact of offshoring on innovation and productivity: Evidence from Swedish manufacturing firms |
0 |
0 |
3 |
36 |
2 |
2 |
9 |
115 |
| The impact of offshoring on productivity and innovation: Evidence from Swedish manufacturing firms |
0 |
0 |
0 |
32 |
2 |
4 |
10 |
96 |
| The impact of the Russian-Ukrainian war on Europe’s forest-based bioeconomy |
0 |
0 |
1 |
37 |
2 |
3 |
17 |
98 |
| The link between firm-level innovation and aggregate productivity growth: a cross-country examination |
0 |
0 |
0 |
118 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
391 |
| Total Factor Productivity of Korean Manufacturing Industries: Comparison of Competing Models with Firm-Level Data |
0 |
1 |
2 |
142 |
0 |
1 |
6 |
367 |
| Total Factor Productivity of Korean Manufacturing Industries: Comparison of Competing Models with Firm-Level Data |
0 |
0 |
0 |
161 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
454 |
| What do we know about Firms’ Research Collaboration with Universities? New Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence |
0 |
0 |
0 |
372 |
2 |
2 |
6 |
1,217 |
| What prevents spillovers from the pool of knowledge? |
0 |
0 |
0 |
37 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
32 |
| Total Working Papers |
6 |
17 |
99 |
15,941 |
103 |
198 |
666 |
47,866 |
| Journal Article |
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| A new approach to estimation of the R&D–innovation–productivity relationship |
1 |
1 |
1 |
23 |
1 |
3 |
6 |
107 |
| Agglomeration and productivity: evidence from firm-level data |
0 |
1 |
1 |
95 |
1 |
3 |
9 |
351 |
| Are Services Different Exporters? |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
105 |
| Board of directors and export spillovers: What is the impact on extensive margins of trade? |
0 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
2 |
3 |
7 |
30 |
| CDM 20 years after |
0 |
0 |
1 |
8 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
50 |
| Clustering, MNEs, and Innovation: Who Benefits and How? |
0 |
0 |
0 |
9 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
50 |
| Does knowledge diffusion between university and industry increase innovativeness? |
0 |
0 |
1 |
113 |
2 |
4 |
7 |
361 |
| Dynamic optimal capital structure and technical change |
1 |
1 |
1 |
141 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
390 |
| European R&D efficiency |
0 |
0 |
1 |
27 |
2 |
2 |
5 |
83 |
| Geographic clustering and outward foreign direct investment |
0 |
0 |
0 |
33 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
200 |
| Globalization Trends and Regional Development: Dynamics of FDI and Human Capital Flows, edited by Roberta Capello and Tomaz Ponce Dentinho. 2012. Cheltenham, U.K. and Northampton, Massachusetts: Edward Elgar. 285 + x. ISBN: 978-1-78100-303-9, $130.50 (cloth); ISBN: 978-1-78100-304-6, $130.50 (ebook) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
11 |
| INNOVATION ACTIVITIES EXPLAINED BY FIRM ATTRIBUTES AND LOCATION |
0 |
0 |
0 |
48 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
199 |
| Imports, Productivity and Origin Markets: The Role of Knowledge‐intensive Economies |
0 |
0 |
1 |
61 |
0 |
1 |
6 |
177 |
| Increasing returns to smart cities |
0 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
60 |
| Innovation and credit constraints: evidence from Swedish exporting firms |
0 |
0 |
1 |
8 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
61 |
| Innovation by start-up firms: The role of the board of directors for knowledge spillovers |
0 |
0 |
1 |
7 |
3 |
7 |
12 |
69 |
| Innovation strategies, external knowledge and productivity growth |
0 |
0 |
1 |
8 |
2 |
2 |
5 |
59 |
| Is Corporate Social Responsibility investing a free lunch? The relationship between ESG, tail risk, and upside potential of stocks before and during the COVID-19 crisis |
0 |
0 |
0 |
15 |
2 |
5 |
7 |
46 |
| Knowledge capital and performance heterogeneity:: A firm-level innovation study |
0 |
0 |
2 |
276 |
1 |
1 |
11 |
713 |
| Knowledge spillovers, productivity and patent |
0 |
0 |
0 |
14 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
73 |
| Learning-by-exporting and innovation strategies |
0 |
0 |
1 |
26 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
116 |
| Learning‐by‐Exporting Revisited: The Role of Intensity and Persistence |
0 |
0 |
0 |
62 |
3 |
3 |
5 |
203 |
| Multinational enterprises and innovation: firm level evidence on spillover via R&D collaboration |
0 |
0 |
0 |
79 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
237 |
| New ventures in Cleantech: Opportunities, capabilities and innovation outcomes |
1 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
1 |
4 |
7 |
35 |
| On the relationship between innovation and performance: A sensitivity analysis |
1 |
1 |
6 |
439 |
2 |
2 |
26 |
1,564 |
| Productivity and International Trade: Firm Level Evidence from a Small Open Economy |
0 |
0 |
0 |
133 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
401 |
| Productivity, networks and knowledge flows |
0 |
0 |
0 |
26 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
104 |
| R&D Strategy, Metropolitan Externalities and Productivity: Evidence from Sweden |
0 |
0 |
0 |
13 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
60 |
| R&D strategies and entrepreneurial spawning |
0 |
0 |
0 |
54 |
2 |
2 |
4 |
293 |
| Small business innovation: firm level evidence from Sweden |
0 |
1 |
1 |
63 |
1 |
3 |
5 |
237 |
| Survival, productivity and growth of new ventures across locations |
0 |
0 |
1 |
11 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
65 |
| Technical change and total factor productivity growth for Swedish manufacturing and service industries |
0 |
0 |
0 |
61 |
2 |
2 |
5 |
268 |
| The EU’s comparative advantage in the “clean-energy arms race” |
0 |
1 |
5 |
5 |
0 |
3 |
14 |
14 |
| The Impact of the Russian-Ukrainian War on Europe’s Forest-Based Bioeconomy |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
12 |
| The Joint Impact of Innovation and Knowledge Spillovers on Productivity and Growth for Exporting Firms |
0 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
41 |
| The geography of innovation and entrepreneurship |
0 |
0 |
1 |
10 |
3 |
6 |
7 |
66 |
| The impact of offshoring on technical change: Evidence from Swedish manufacturing firms |
0 |
0 |
1 |
5 |
3 |
5 |
7 |
23 |
| The innovative performance of foreign-owned enterprises in small open economies |
0 |
0 |
0 |
37 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
149 |
| The link between firm-level innovation and aggregate productivity growth: a cross-country examination |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
0 |
1 |
7 |
67 |
| Total factor productivity of Korean manufacturing industries: Comparison of competing models with firm-level data |
1 |
1 |
2 |
33 |
1 |
3 |
6 |
141 |
| Total Journal Articles |
5 |
8 |
32 |
1,974 |
42 |
80 |
218 |
7,291 |
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