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REPORT TO THE EVALUATION TEAM
FROM
CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR SCIENCE AND
INNOVATION STUDIES
CESIS
STOCKHOLM 2013 05 23
Björn Hårsman
Chairman of CESIS
Hans Lööf
Deputy director of CESIS 2012
Director of CESIS 2013-
Börje Johansson
Director of CESIS 2010-2012
Anders Broström
CESIS coordinator
Johanna Palmberg
CESIS coordinator
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0.1. SUMMARY
In comparison to its first six years of operations, the centre has during the period 2010-2013
increased its focus in terms of research agenda and methodology. This strategy has been
implemented in order to build on identified comparative advantages to achieve the long-term
objective of establishing CESIS as a recognized hub in the international research community.
Research program
CESIS research is organized into five working areas, with a common focus on firm-level
theoretisation and measurement of innovation and entrepreneurship activities. Quantitatively,
CESIS research during the period can be summarized by the following observations: (i) 48
peer reviewed articles1, (ii) 8 per reviewed books with international publishers, (iii)
organization of 6 international conferences and symposia, (iv) 6 edited special issues of
international journals2, (v) 10 PhD dissertations, (v) a large number of peer reviewed book
chapters in a set of edited books – including our own books.
One of the most prominent lines of CESIS research during the period concerns the
identification of three decisive properties of an innovating firm: its persistence in internal
innovation efforts, its persistence as an exporter and persistence in active accumulation of
knowledge. Related findings concerning the effect of a firm’s regional knowledge milieu on
the firm performance suggests that the positive effect of external knowledge availability is
only observable for firms that are engaged in innovation activities. The result of the
conjunction of internal and external knowledge is strongest for persistent innovators.
Furthermore, CESIS research has showed that spinoffs inherit properties from their respective
parent company in the following sense: spinoffs from firms with a persistent engagement in
innovation efforts display a greater survival rate, a higher level of productivity a stronger
employment growth than other new firms. The reported results are all still very of very recent
origin and it remains to further confirm the new findings and to disseminate them to policy-
makers.
Outreach activities and organization: CESIS researchers’ public presentations of results have
been influenced by spontaneous demand from policymakers at municipal, regional, national
and international level. This has given feedbacks to in-house research at CESIS. The centre’s
board has been composed to reflect both research issues and demands from institutions that
apply or make use of results from innovation research.
Since its foundation CESIS has been guided by its board of directors and supported by an
international board of advisors. The most important objectives of the board of international
advisors have been (i) to organize conjunction of research where board members themselves
has participated and (ii) to establish platforms for more extensive collaborations with other
innovation research centers of the world.
Strengths of the center: The strongest property of the centre is its long-term systematic
development of unique databases that allow research on new aspects of innovation at the
1) The activity plan presents the idea to arrange a set of “innovation diagnoses” for different
sectors throughout the period. The CESIS outreach strategy has since then re-focused the
centre’s activities towards partnerships and jointly executed events. Rather than CESIS
setting up and performing independent diagnoses, the centre has sought to be responsive to
external requests to perform such analysis. Thus, studies of the Food industry has been
coordinated with the Swedish Board of Agriculture and a study on knowledge intensive
business service firms (KIBS) has been conducted in dialogue with the Swedish Agency
for Growth Policy Analysis. As discussions with AstraZeneca about an in-depth study on
the Life Science industry have not lead to further results (due to company restructuring /
changed priorities), CESIS has initiated an independent diagnosis study.
2) In the activity plan, a CESIS periodical newsletter was discussed. In line with the change
of strategy (see above) CESIS has opted not to give out a periodical newsletter of its own,
but focused on providing continuous information about the center at its homepage, which
has seen two waves of redesign during the period. CESIS research has regularly been
featured in the Esbri national newsletter and in digital as well as printed media.
3) The activity plan foresaw the publication of a “Handbook of Innovation Networks”. A
book with the full ambition described in the plan has not been initiated. An initiative very
similar to the original CESIS proposal was identified, and CESIS researchers are engaged
in this production (main editor Christiano Antonelli).
4) The development of a PhD course in “Innovation Economics” has been delayed more than
a year, compared to the activity plan. The first round of this course is expected to start
during spring 2014.
5) In the activity plan, a comprehensive U.S.-Sweden comparison was described. This plan
has been scrapped. The ambition to compare the structure and effects of innovation
network between Sweden and other countries of interest remains, manifested in the new
book being developed in collaboration with CIIR and CIRCLE, in an international
workshop planned to be held in Stockholm in 2013 with the support of the NSF, and in
several CESIS research publications. See for example the book Global Creativity Index
and CESIS WP #289.
10. Facts about the Centre
A. CV HANS LÖÖF AND BÖRJE JOHANSSON
Hans Lööf
Published and accepted articles in refereed journals (Since 2008)
1. Lööf, H. (2014), Assessment of Globalization Trends and Regional Development. Journal of Regional Science. Forthcoming.
2. Lööf, H., and Savin M (2014). Cross-country differences in R&D productivity. Comparison of 11
European economies. Economics of Innovation and New Technology. Forthcoming.
3. Lööf, H., Nabavi-Larijani, P., Cook, G and Johansson, B (2014). Persistent Exporter Performance: The
importance of internal, local and global knowledge. Economics of Innovation and New Technology.
Forthcoming.
4. Lööf, H., Nabavi-Larijani, P. (2013). Survival, Productivity and Growth of New Ventures across Locations. Small Business Economics. Forthcoming.
5. Lööf, H., Nabavi-Larijani, P. (2013). Increasing Return To Smart Cities. Regional Science Policy and Practice. June.
6. Cook, C,. Pandit, N. R., Johansson, B., Lööf, H. (2013). Clustering, MNEs and Innovation: Who
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Benefits and How? International Journal of the Economics of Business. Forthcoming. 7. Cook, C., Pandit, N. R., Johansson, B., Lööf, H. (2012). Geographic Clustering and Outward Foreign
Direct Investment. International Business Review. December 8. Oh, D., A. Heshmati and H. Lööf (2012) Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity, Growth for
Swedish Manufacturing and Service Industries. Applied Economics. Volume 44 (18), 2373-2391 9. Andersson, M., Baltzopolus, A., Lööf, H. (2012). Firm Strategy and Entreprenurial Spawning.
Research Policy. Elevier, vol. 41(1), pages 54-68. 10. Andersson, M. and Lööf, H. (2012). Small Business Innovation. Firm level evidence from Sweden.
Journal of Technology Transfer. 37(5), 732-754. 11. Andersson, M. and Lööf, H. (2011). Agglomeration, Productivity and Firm Size. Evidence from Swedish
12. Lööf, H. (2010). Are Services Different Exporters? Applied Economic Quarterly, vol. 56(1), pages 99-
117.
13. Andersson, M. and Lööf, H. (2010). Imports, Productivity and the Origin Markets -the role of
knowledge-intensive economies. The World Economy vol. 33(3), pages 458-481.
14. Andersson, M. and Lööf, H. (2009) Learning-by-Exporting Revisited, the role of intensity and
persistence. Scandinavian Journal of Economics vol. 111(4), pages 893-916
15. Heshmati, A., Lööf, H. (2009). Investment and Performance of Firms: Correlation or Causality?
Corporate Ownership & Control. Vol 6 (3).
16. Lööf, H. (2009). Multinational Enterprises and Innovation: Firm level evidence on spillovers via R&D
collaboration. Journal of Evolutionary Economics. Vol. 19(1), pages 41-71.
17. Andersson, M., Lööf, H. and Johansson, S. (2008). Productivity and International Trade - firm-level
evidence from a small open economy. Review of World Economics. Vol 144 (4).
18. Johansson, B. and Lööf, H. (2008). Innovation Activities Explained by Firm Attributes and Location.
Economics of Innovation and New Technology. Vol 17(6), pages 533-522
19. Dachs, B., B. Ebersberger and H. Lööf (2008). The innovative performance of foreign-owned
enterprises in small open economies, Journal of Technology Transfer. Vol 33(4) pages 393-406
20. Lööf, H. and A. Broström (2008). Does Knowledge Diffusion between University and Industry Increase
Innovativeness? Journal of Technology Transfer. 2008 vol. 33(1), pages 73-90.
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Management? Journal of Managerial Economics.
Published and accepted articles in refereed books (since 2008) 1. Martinsson, G., Lööf, H. (2013) Financial Factors and Patents. in In Andreas Pyka and Esben Sloth
Andersen (eds.) Innovation, Organisation, Sustainability and Crises. Springer.
2. Lööf, H, Andersson, M., Johansson, B., Karlsson, C. (2012). R&D Strategy and Firm Performance What
is the long-run impact of persistent R&D?, in Martin Andersson, Börje Johansson, Charlie Karlsson and
Hans Lööf (editors) Innovation and Growth – From R&D strategies of innovating firms to economy-
wide technological change. Oxford University Press.
3. Andersson, M., Johansson, B., Karlsson, C., and Lööf, H (2010), Multinationals in the Knowledge
Economy – a case study of AstraZeneca in Sweden, in Eberhard Bohne and Charlie Karlsson (editors)
Repositioning Europe and America for Growth. The Role of Governments and private Actors in Key
Policy Areas. LIT Verlag.
4. Andersson, M and Lööf, H (2010), Firm Performance and International Trade. In B. Johansson, C.
Karlsson and R. Stough (eds.) Knowledge and Talent in Regional and Global Context. E. Elgar Publ.
5. Lööf, H., B. Johansson and B. Ebersberger, B (2010) The Innovation and Productivity Effect of Foreign
Take-Over of National Assets. In Charlie, Karlsson, Börje Johansson and Roger Stough (eds.)
Entrepreneurship and Development - Local Processes and Global. E. Elgar Publ.
6. Johansson B, Lööf H and Rader Olsson A. (2010) Firm Location, Corporate Structure, R&D Investment,
Innovation and Productivity, in C Karlsson, B Johansson and R Stough (eds), Entrepreneurship and
Innovation in Functional Regions, Edward Elgar Publ
7. Johansson B and Lööf H. (2009) FDI Inflows to Sweden – Consequences for Innovation and Renewal,
in S. Desai, P. Nijkamp and R. Stough (eds), New Dimensions in Regional Economic Development: The
Role of Entrepreneurship Research, Practice and Policy, Elsevier.
8 Lööf, H. (2008) Technological Diffusion and Innovation , in Cees van Beers, Alfred Kleinknecht,
Roland Ortt & Robert Verburg (eds.) Determinants of Innovative Behaviour, Palgrave, MacMillan
Book edition
Martin Andersson, Charlie Karlsson, Börje Johansson and Hans Lööf. Innovation and Growth: From R&D
Strategies of Innovating Firms to Economy-wide Technological Change. Oxford University Press, 2012.
Member of the editorial board of The Annals of Regional Science
Guest editor The World Economy 2013 and Economics of Innovation and New Technology 2013
PhD Supervision
Supervisied and passed
Anders Broström, main supervisor, together with Björn Hårsman. Doctoral thesis defended June 2009.
Strategists and Academics. Essays on Interaction in R&D
Financed by: MNE-Vinnova, Lundberg foundation, University project-Vinnova
Apostolos Baltzopoulos, main supervisor, together with Martin Andersson
Doctoral thesis defended May 2010. Financed by: Ricarda-EU, Microdyn-EU, MNE-Vinnova
Gustav Martinsson, main supervisor, together with Marcus Asplund.
Doctoral thesis defended October 2010. Does Finance matter for Corporate Innovation
Financed by: Confederation of Swedish Enterprise
Torbjörn Halldin, assistant supervisor, together with Pontus Braunerhjelm.
Doctoral Thesis defended in October 2011Financed by: Microdyn, EU-project.
Zara Dagbashyan, assistant supervisor together with Björn Hårsman.
Doctoral Thesis Defended in January 2013 Financed by: University project-Vinnova
Daniel Halvarsson, assistant supervisor, together with Kristina Nyström
Docoral Thesis defended March 2013 Financed by: RATIO institute
Currently supervising PhD-students
Pardis, Nabavi, main supervisor, together with Kristina Nyström. February 2011. Doctoral thesis
is planned to be finalized 2014, Financed by Oskarshamnsprojektet.
Mia Wahlström Hårsman, assistant supervisor together with Göran Cars.
Started 2012. Doctoral thesis is planned to be finalized 2015, Financed by: Tyréns.
Börje Johansson
Published and accepted articles in refereed journals (Recent) 1. Cook G, Pandit N, Johansson B and Lööf H (2012), Geographic Clustering and Outward Foreign Direct
Investment, International Business Review (forthcoming)
2. Cook G, Pandit N, Johansson B and Lööf H (2012), Clustering, MNEs and Innovation: Who Benefits and
How? International Journal of the Economics of Business (forthcoming)
3. Andersson M and Johansson B (2012), Heterogeneous Distributions of Firms Sustained by Innovation
Dynamics – A Model with Empirical Illustration and Analysis, Journal of Industry, Competition and
Trade, 12:239-263
4. Johansson, B. and Klaesson, J. (2011), Agglomeration Dynamics of Business Services, Annals of
Regional Science, 47:373-391
5. Andersson M and Johansson B (2010), Heterogeneous Distributions of Firms Sustained by Innovation
Dynamics – A Model with Empirical Illustration and Analysis, Journal of Industry, Competition and
Trade DOI 10.1007/s10842-010-0092-z
6. Johansson, B. and Klaesson, J. (2010), Agglomeration Dynamics of Business Services, Annals of
7. Innovation Ideas and Regional Characteristics – product innovations and export entrepreneurship by
firms in Swedish regions, Growth and Change, 39: 193-224 (co-author M Andersson)
8. Innovation Activities Explained by Firm Attributes and Location, Economics of Innovation and New
Technology, 17:533-552, 2008, (co-author H. Lööf)
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Published and accepted articles in refereed books (since 2008) 1. Lööf H, Johansson B, Andersson M and Karlsson C (2012), Introduction: Innovation and Growth – From
R&D Strategies of Innovating Firms to Economy-Wide Technological Change In: M Andersson, B
Johansson, C Karlsson and Lööf H (eds), Innovation and Growth – From R&D Strategies of Innovating
Firms to Economy-Wide Technological Change, Oxford University Press, 1-20
2. Lööf H, Johansson B, Andersson M and Karlsson C (2012), R&D Strategy and Firm Performance. What
is the long-run impact of persistent R&D? In: M Andersson, B Johansson, C Karlsson and Lööf H (eds),
Innovation and Growth – From R&D Strategies of Innovating Firms to Economy-Wide Technological
Change, Oxford University Press, 182-208
3. Andersson M and Johansson B (2012), Regional Policy as Change Management: Theoretical discussion
and empirical illustrations, in A Rickne, S Laestadius and H Etzkowitz, Innovation Governance in an
Open Economy, Routledge, Oxon, pp 136-161
4. Karlsson C, Johansson B and Stough RR (2012), Introduction: innovation, technology and knowledge, in
C Karlsson, B Johansson and RR Stough (eds), Innovation, Technology and Knowledge, Routledge, Oxon
5. Andersson, M, Johansson, B and Månsson, K (2011), Dynamics of Entry and Exit of Product Varieties:
What economic dynamics can account for the empirical regularities, in T. Puu and A. Panchuk (eds),
Nonlinear Economic Dynamics, Nova science Publishers, New York, pp 155-174.
6. Johansson B and Klaesson J (2011), Creative Milieus in the Stockholm Region. In: DE Andersson, ÅE
Andersson and C Mellander (eds), Handbook of Creative Cities, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp 456-481
7. Andersson, M. and Johansson, B. (2010), Multinationals in the Knowledge Economy – a Case Study of
AstraZeneca in Sweden, in E. Bohne and C, Karlsson (eds), Repositioning Europe and America for
Growth – The role of governments and private actors in key policy areas, LIT Verlag Berlin, pp. 233-278.
8. Andersson, M. and Johansson, B (2010), Regional Policy as Change Management – a theoretical
discussion and empirical illustrations, in A. Rickne (eds), Regional innovation systems: The Swedish
Experience of Policy, Governance and Knowledge Dynamics'
9. Johansson, B., Lööf, H. and Ebersberger, B. (2010), The Innovation and Productivity Effect of Foreign
Takeover of National Assets, in C. Karlsson, B. Johansson and R.R. Stough (eds), Entrepreneurship and
Regional Development – Local Processes and Global Patterns, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.287-313.
10. Karlsson, C., Johansson, B. and Stough, R.R. (2010), Introduction, in C. Karlsson, B. Johansson and
R.R. Stough (eds), Entrepreneurship and Regional Development – Local Processes and Global Patterns,
Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp 1-27.
11. Johansson, B. and Thomas Paulsson (2009), Location of New Industries: the ICT Sector 1990-2000, in C.
Karlsson, B. Johansson and R.R. Stough (eds), Innovation, Aggglomeration and Regional Competition,
Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 261-293.
12. Karlsson, C., Stough, R.R. and Johansson, B. (2009), Introduction: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in
Functional Regions, in C. Karlsson, R. Stough and B. Johansson (eds), Entrepreneurship and Innovations
in Functional Regions, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 1-20.
13. Johansson, B. , Ryder-Olsson, A. and Lööf, H. (2009), Firm Location, Corporate Structure and
Innovation, in C. Karlsson, R. Stough and B. Johansson (eds), Entrepreneurship and Innovations in
Functional Regions, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 77-106.
14. Johansson, B., Karlsson, C. and Stough, R.R (2009), Introduction: the rise of regions, agglomeration and
regional competition, in C. Karlsson, B. Johansson and R.R. Stough (eds), Innovation, Aggglomeration
and Regional Competition, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 1-15.
15. Johansson, B. and Karlsson, C. (2009), Knowledge and Regional Development, in R. Capello and P.
Nijkamp (eds), Handbook of Regional Growth and Development Theories, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham,
pp. 239-255.
16. Johansson, B. and Forslund, U. (2008), The Analysis of Location, Co-Location and Urbanisation
Economies, in C. Karlsson (ed), Handbook of Research on Cluster Theory, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham,
pp. 39-66.
17. Johansson, B. (2008), Transport Infrastructure Inside and Across Urban Regions: Models and assessment
methods, in The Wider Economic Benefits of Transport: Micro-, meso- and macro-economic transport
planning and investment tools, Round Table 140, Transport Research Centre, OECD, Paris.
Books and Edited Books (Since 2008)
1. Klaesson J, Johansson B and Karlsson C (2012), Metropolitan Regions: Preconditions and Strategies for
Growth and Development in the Global Economy, Springer, Berlin (forthcoming)
2. Karlsson C, Johansson B, Kobayashi K and Stough RR (2012), Knowledge and Innovation in Space,
Edward Elgar, Cheltenham
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3. Karlsson C, Johansson B and Stough RR (2012), Knowledge and Talent in Regional and Global Contexts,
Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (Forthcoming)
4. Karlsson C, Johansson B and Stough RR (2012), Agglomeration, Clusters and Entrepreneurship: Studies
in Regional Economic Development, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (Forthcoming)
5. Andersson M, Johansson B, Karlsson C, and Lööf H (2012) Innovation and Growth: From R&D
Strategies of Innovating Firms to Economy-wide Technological Change. Oxford University Press,
5. Karlsson C, Johansson B and Stough RR, eds (2012), Innovation, Technology and Knowledge, Routledge,
Oxon
6. Karlsson C, Johansson B and Stough RR, eds (2011), Entrepreneurship and Regional Development –
Local Processes and Global Patterns, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham
7. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development – Local processes and global patterns, Edward Elgar,
Cheltenham, 2010 (Co-editors C. Karlsson and R.R. Stough)
8. Entrepreneurship and Innovations in Functional Regions, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2009 (Co-editors
C. Karlsson and R.R. Stough)
9. Innovation, Agglomeration and Regional Competition, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2009 (Co-editors C.
Karlsson and R.R. Stough)
Academic Services
Editor of the Annals of Regional Science
Editorial board member of Journal of Applied Regional Science
Editorial board member of Networks and Spatial Theory
B. CENTRE PARTNERS10
(a) Swedish Board of Agriculture. Key person is Lars Pettersson
(b) School of Public Policy at George Mason University. VA, US. Key persons are professors Roger Stough and
Zoltan Acs.
(c) Swedish Agency of Growth Policy Analysis. Key person is Enrico Deiaco.
(d) Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth. Key person is Göran Brulin.
C. BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Björn Hårsman
Chairman of the board CESIS
Professor emeritus at the department of Industrial Economics and Management, KTH.
Börje Johansson Adjunct professor at the Division of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at KTH, The Royal Institute of Technology
and professor of Economics at the Jönköping International Business School (JIBS).
Per Hedberg CEO and founder of STING (Stockholm Innovation & Growth)
Thorbjörn Ekström Head of R&D, Stockholm City Council
Charlie Karlsson Professor of Economics at JIBS and BTH, President of ERSA (European Regional Science Association)
Pontus Braunerhjelm CEO of the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum and Professor of Economics at KTH
Therese Sjölundh CEO of Science Park, Jönköping
D. MANAGEMENT TEAM
Hans Lööf
Deputy director of CESIS 2012 Director of CESIS 2013-
Professor of Economics at the division of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Department of Industrial
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Formal partner agreements signed with partners a and b. Partners c and d are listed here as prominent examples of organisations with whom CESIS has continuous exchange, and with whom contracts for particular projects and investigations have been signed during the period 2010-2012.
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Economics and Management, KTH.
Börje Johansson
Director of CESIS 2010-2012
Adjunct professor at the Division of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at KTH, The Royal Institute of
Technology and professor of Economics at the Jönköping International Business School (JIBS).
Anders Broström
CESIS coordinator
PhD in Economics at the Division of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at KTH.
Johanna Palmberg
CESIS coordinator
PhD in Economics at the Division of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at KTH and research director at
Entreprenörskapsforum.
E. INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
Contacts with members of the board of international advisers at (i) Uddevalla Symposia
2012- 2010 [Faro, (Portugal), Bergamo (Italy), and Jönköping (Sweden)] , at (ii) workshops in
Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience in Vienna April 2010, in Guö Blekinge in
June 2010 and Jönköping in August 2010, at (iii) ERSA, WRSA and NARSA conferences
2010-2012, at (iv) International Symposium in honour of Lennart Hjalmarsson, Gothenburg
December 2012, and ISGEP workshop in Stockholm, September 2012.
Zoltan Acs Professor, George Mason University
Roberta Capello Professor, Politecnico di Milano, Dept. of Economics
Luc Soete Professor, University of Maastricht, Institute of Infonomics
Bart Verspagen Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology, ECIS
Roger R. Stough Professor, George Mason University
F. RESEARCH PROGRAM
Work Area 1: Dynamics of firms’ innovation efforts – strategies, resource bases and evolution
Main responsible: Börje Johansson, Hans Lööf, Johanna Palmberg, Per Thulin
Work Area 2: International networks, export performance and innovation of firms and sector-grouped firms
Main responsible: Börje Johansson, Hans Lööf
Work Area 3: Knowledge flow networks and innovation results for different sectors
Main responsible: Anders Broström, Charlie Karlsson, Andreas Stephan
Work Area 4: The role of knowledge-intensive service sectors in innovation networks
Main responsible: Mikaela Backman, Börje Johansson, Johan Klaesson, Hans Lööf, Charlotta Mellander
Work Area 5: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Networks
Main responsible: Pontus Braunerhjelm, Anders Broström, Charlie Karlsson, Kristina Nyström and Johanna
Palmberg
G. PUBLICATION AND PRESENTATION ACTIVITY
The CESIS research team has been ranked among the top 5% research organizations world-
wide engaged in innovation research over the whole current program period 2010-2013,
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according to the IDEAS/REPEC ranking system.11
The most recent ranking position was top
3%. The aggregate web of science citations is above 2 500 and number of Google scholar
citations since year 2008 is almost 22 000.
Since 2010, the researchers from the CESIS group have published 64 per review articles listed
in the IDEAS/REPEC system. Considering the research programs, there is a fairly good
distribution across the five areas, which a slight centre of gravity around firm dynamics and
sectoral and international networks. Among papers accepted for publications, but not
published yet, there will be CESIS publication in top field journals such as Journal of Finance
and more broad top journals such as Research Policy and innovation journals such as
Economics of Innovation and Industry Innovation.
Table g.0: CECIS researchers and citations
WOSa citations GS citatationsb since 2008
Mikaela Backman 0
52
Pontus Braunerhjelm 264
2670
Anders Broström 28
198
Hans Lööf 145
1691
Börje Johansson 48
785
Johanna Palmberg 2
43
Charlie Karlsson 133
1375
Johan Klaesson 22
150
Charlotta Mellander 137
685
Kristina Nyström 23
212
Andreas Stephan 78
1090
Per Thulin 2
87
Thomas Astebro 202
1142
Almas Heshmati 348
3354
Gustav Martinsson 5
30
Joakim Wagner 1048
7593
Björn Hårsman 64
517
SUM 2 549 21 678
Notes
a = Web of Science citations
b = Google Scholar Citations
Table g.1: Peer – Reviewed journal articles published 2010-2012
Published per-review articles registeraed in the IDEAS/REPEC system
WA1 10 articles
WA2 11 articles
WA3 12 articles
WA4 8 articles
WA5 7 articles
Total 48 articles
Work Area 1: Dynamics of firms’ innovation efforts – strategies, resource bases and evolution
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http://ideas.repec.org/top/top.ino.html#authors
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1. Donghyun Oh & Almas Heshmati & Hans Lööf, 2012. "Technical change and total factor productivity growth
for Swedish manufacturing and service industries," Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol.
44(18), pages 2373-2391, June.
2. Martin Andersson & Hans Lööf, 2012. "Small business innovation: firm level evidence from Sweden," The
Journal of Technology Transfer, Springer, vol. 37(5), pages 732-754, October.
3. Martin Andersson & Hans Lööf, 2011. "Agglomeration and productivity: evidence from firm-level data," The
Annals of Regional Science, Springer, vol. 46(3), pages 601-620, June.
4. Albert Solé-Ollé & Andreas Stephan & Timo Valilä, 2012. "Productivity and financing of regional transport
Karlsson C, Johansson B and Stough RR (eds.) 2012, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development – Local
processes and Global Patterns. Edward Elgar.
Andersson D, Andersson Å and Mellander C (eds.) 2012, Handbook of Creative Cities, Edward Elgar.
Work Area 5: Entrepreneurship and innovation networks
Karlsson C, Johansson B and Stough RR (eds.) 2012, Agglomeration, Clusters and Entrepreneurship: Studies in
regional Economic Development. Edward Elgar.
International conferences arranged by CESIS and Special Issues edited by CESIS 2010-2013 During the period 2010-2013, the international conferences arranged by CESIS are numbered to seven, and
typically each conference has one associated Special Issue in well-established scientific journals. In addition to
the conferences organized by CESIS itself, the individual CESIS researchers have participated in a number of
international conferences, workshops, etc.
Table g.3: International conferences arranged by CESIS and Special Issues edited by CESIS
2010-2013
WA1 2 Conferences
1 Special Issue
WA2 1 Conference
1 Special Issue
WA3 1 Conferences
2 Special Issues
WA4 -
WA5 2 conferences
2 Special Issues
Total 6 Conferences
6 Special issues
Work Area 1: Dynamics of firms’ innovation efforts – strategies, resource bases and evolution
13th Uddevalla 2010 "Innovation and Multidimensional Entrepreneurship - Economic, Social and Academic
Aspects". University of Bergamo, Italy.
“Beyond CDM”, High-Level Work-Shop in London 2013 with 20 top scientists in Economics of Innovation.
Theory, modeling and empirical research.
Special Issue 2014
Work Area 2: International networks, export performance and innovation of firms and sector-grouped
firms
7 the ISGEP Conference Stockholm Sept 2012.
Special Issue World Economy: Innovation and Export (2014)
Work Area 3: Knowledge flow networks and innovation results for different sectors
Innovation and Productivity Conference Gothenburg Dec 2012
Special Issue of Economics of Innovation and New Technology: Innovation and Productivity (2014)
Special Issue of Annals of Regional Science: Locational Conditions and Firm Performance, Volume 46, Issue 3,
June 2011
Work Area 4: The role of knowledge-intensive service sectors in innovation networks
No one yet, but CESIS is planning to organize a conference in the end of 2013 or beginning of 2014.
Work Area 5: Entrepreneurship and innovation networks
14th Uddevalla 2011 “Entrepreneurial Knowledge, Technology and Transformation of Regions”. University of
Bergamo, Italy
15th
Uddevalla 2012: “Entrepreneurship and Innovation Networks”. University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal.
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Special Issue of Small Business Economics: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Networks (2014)
Special Issue in International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business
H. INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITY Illustrating the networks through which CESIS activities described above have been made
possible, key participants at events organized or co-organized by CESIS are listed below.
Workshop, KTH, September 2012 [in collaboration with ISGEP]
In 2012 the ISGEP workshop had a particular focus on innovation and internationalization. In
total 28 papers were presented by scientists from universities in 15 countries and the World
Bank. Invited keynote speakers include John Cantwell from Caruthers University in Newark
and Mark Roberts from Pennsylvania State University. Both belong to the absolute world
leader layer of researchers conducting studies on innovation and international markets
List of Participants: Amador, Joao; Balsvik, Ragnhild ; Bernini,Michele; Cantwell, John; Farinas, Jose C;