Search for dissertations about: "knowledge-based regional development"
Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the words knowledge-based regional development.
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1. The Dynamics of Innovation and Knowledge-Based Regional Development
Abstract : Geographical regions as diverse as Silicon Valley, California and Linköping, Sweden have been the sources of new technology and endogenously created innovations. Scholars and policymakers recognise that specific regions or clusters of businesses have the capability to engage in more innovative activities and new business formation and to experience higher employment growth than others. READ MORE
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2. Creating Advantage: On the complexity of industrial knowledge formation in the knowledge-based economy
Abstract : Knowledge as a resource and knowledge formation as a process are seen as central to providing nations and regions as well as firms with a competitive advantage. This is captured by the view that the economic and industrial landscape is currently undergoing a transformation towards a knowledge-based economy. READ MORE
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3. Sowing seeds for innovation : The impact of social capital in regional strategic networks
Abstract : In order to promote regional innovation and stronger social coherence the European Union has set goals to become the world’s most competitive, dynamic, and knowledge-based economy. These ambitious goals are supported by funds allocated to regional strategic networks (also called cluster initiatives). READ MORE
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4. The fountainhead of innovation health : a conceptualization & investigation
Abstract : This thesis, addresses the convergence between several strings of current research in the quest for a better understanding of the co-dependency and co-evolution of the human being and her ability to innovate, organize and provide products and services through competitive firms. The introduction and development of the concepts “Innovation Health” and “Systems of Innovation Health” aims at capturing emerging interdisciplinary understanding of early childhood developmental health and human life-spanning developmental conditions, to the extent that they are relevant for economic change, knowledge- and innovation related theory and research. READ MORE
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5. Mind the Gap : exploring evidence-based policymaking for improved preventive and mental health services in the Swedish health system
Abstract : Background: The challenges in the utilization of scientific findings in the fields of prevention and mental health are well documented. Scholars have found significant gaps between the knowledge available and the knowledge applied in healthcare. READ MORE