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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

micro level (including employee characteristics, start-ups, management, mobility, learning,

spillovers, collaborations, owner ship). Spatial aspects of clustering phenomena can be

researched with a fine level of place delineation. The geographical information in the data

1 Source: REPEC

2 One Special Issue is associated to a Workshop that will take place 2013 (London) and the articles are not

submitted yet.

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base also allow the research to consider firms’ access to knowledge intensive labor, supply of

knowledge intensive services, universities and other actors in the innovation systems.

Resources and funding: For the three years 2010 - 2012, a major addition to the CESIS

budget has been in form of in kind deliveries from externally-paid PhD-students in the

research activities. This corresponds to more than double the value of the funding coming

from Vinnova. In addition, the two collaborating universities are annually supporting CESIS

with financial resources corresponding to approximately 2 million SEK. Other external

funding sources include research funding bodies such The Science Council, Riksbankens

Jubileumsfond, the Wallander foundation, Formas and Lundbergstiftelsen. Research on the

CESIS research programme has also been co-funded throughthe Royal Academy of

Engineering Sciences, the Board of Agriculture, Tillväxtverket, Tillväxtanalys, Trafikanalys, ,

municipalities, regional bodies, chambers of commerce and other private-industry

associations.

Academic community: Critical mass is an important property of a research center with the

ambition of being an international hub in the research field Economics of Innovation. CESIS

has for a long time been established among the top 5% research institutions world-wide,

within the field of innovation studies. The current strategy (2013-) emphasizes ambitions to

strengthen the links to international collaborators in places like Liverpool, London,

Maastricht, Lüneburg, Mannheim, Vienna, Paris, Milan, Seoul, Kyoto, Washington,

Wisconsin, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Toronto. In these efforts, CESIS builds on existing

networks and positions, exemplified by the presidency of CESIS research Charlie Karlsson at

the European Regional Science Association (ERSA) and the editorship of the Annals of

Regional Science by CESIS researcher Börje Johansson, but also encourages (and funds)

junior staff to develop new linkages. During the period, CESIS researcher have been guest

editors of Small Business Economics, Economics of Innovation and New Technology and

The World Economy, all in association with international conferences arranged by and funded

by CESIS.

Integration of research and education: Already when the CESIS was established in 2004, the

centre initiated a master course entitled Economics of Innovation and Growth. The program

was very popular from the very start and in 2006. Currently the two-year program has about

300 applicants and 25 admitted 25 students in each cohort. The majority of all PhD-students

in Economics at KTH and at the Jonkoping International Business School, JIBS are writing

their theses as an integral part of CESIS research program. A fair amount of the PhDs at KTH

is recruited from the master program. In total, about 20 persons have received their doctoral

degree within the CESIS milieu. A large number of master-theses belongs to the same

research territory. More than half of the students who receive their PhD-degree in the field of

innovation studies at KTH and JIBS are female.

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1. Reaching set goals3

In order to develop an internationally recognized centre of excellence for science and

innovation research, we have several strategies: (i) developing extensive databases covering

micro observations on all firms and employees in Sweden, (ii) joint research with scholars in

the collaborative network of CESIS, (iii) a frequent inflow of collaborators sharing the

opportunities provided by the CESIS infrastructure4, (iv) organizing international conferences

and workshops with leading contributors to the field, (v) editing books and special issues

collecting findings at the research frontier, (vi) comprehensive publication of articles in the

center of the field of economics of innovation, emphasizing the dynamics of micro

phenomena, (vii) a working paper series linked to the open science system REPEC/IDEAS

(providing information about downloading, citations, peer-review publications in journals of

working papers, national, international and field rankings of the individual researchers etc.).

In addition, the centre has developed linkages to Swedish research centres such as Circle, Ciir

and the House of finance.

As a measure of communication, CESIS has during the period 2010-2012 increased its

collaboration with the Entrepreneurship Forum, which provides a platform for interaction

with users of research results. One such example is a series of appreciated breakfastseminars

on sustainable growth where CESIS researchers exchange ideas with other researchers and

participants from government and industry and the Schumpeterian Lecture at the KTH in

December 2012. A further prominent example is the regularly invitations of users of research

to dissemination meetings performed in the context of the TIPT project, with 50-100

participants each time.

For the period 2010-2012, CESIS has introduced an approach to organize the research into

five areas. Each of these areas has a set of international collaborators that congregate in work-

shops arranged by CESIS. Results have the form of joint articles, special issues and books.

2. Research Area, Competence Profile and Critical Size

The core competence of CESIS is Economics and Statistics. CESIS has adopted an approach

to innovation systems research that comprises systematic analyses of dynamic

interdependencies in the development of firms, their industries, interaction networks and

institutional milieu. Evidence-based knowledge is derived from time-series observations of

individuals, firms, sectors, regions and pertinent networks – including data combined for

cross-country comparisons. The analyses aim at generating a better understanding of sectoral

innovation systems ranging from entrepreneur and firm perspectives to international contexts.

The focus areas are sectoral innovation systems, comprising the role of international networks

and innovative small and medium-sized companies.

CESIS is characterized by combination of intellectual resources from a university of

technology and a business school. At KTH, CESIS is attached to the division of

Entrepreneurship and Innovation, which in turn is a part of the Department for industrial

economics and management at the School of Industrial Engineering and Management. At

JIBS, CESIS is attached to the department of Economics, Finance, Statistics and Informatics.

3 Deviations from the original three year plan set out in the application to Vinnova are listed and commented in

section 9b. 4 Including Bo Carlsson, Paul Cheshire, Almas Heshmati, Gary Cook, John Cantwell, Roger Stough, John

Quigley (deceased during the period), Geoff Hewings and Joachim Wagner

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Within both KTH and JIBS there are also linkages to innovation and entrepreneurship

researchers in the greater university environment. The local environment in which CESIS

research and PhD education takes place is thus richer than the list of centre affiliates suggest.5

It should be emphasized that both in both Stockholm and Jönköping CESIS is an integrated

part of the education and research at the pertinent universities. Facilities in terms of data bases

and statistical software are shared between the two CESIS locations.

CESIS has established itself as a research centre internationally as well as nationally. This is

reflected in a variety of ways. According to the worldwide REPEC-system, for instance,

CESIS ranks high in terms of research output and research impact. In year 2012 CESIS was

ranked among top 2% world-wide among the academic institutions active in research on

innovation. Several of CESIS researchers rank high and publish in top journals.

CESIS has established strong international networks and signed formal agreements with the

School of Public Policy at the George Mason University and Indiana University. Currently a

formal collaboration with the ZEW in Mannheim is evolving. The centre is also maintaining

particularly active links with Maastricht (UNI-MERIT), Paris (HEC and the Centre de

Recherche en Économie et Statistique, CREST), Liverpool (Management School at

University of Liverpool) and Seoul (College of Economics Sogang University). In the past 3

years, CESIS has developed a strategy in which several international researchers are invited to

study the same research problem. An additional approach is to push (and fund) younger

CESIS researchers who partner with an internationally recognized scholar to jointly carry out

a research project.

CESIS status as centre has created a focal point for research activities and allowed continious

prioritization of research areas, which is particularly fruitful to the type of micro-data

intensive studies that CESIS perform (where significant efforts and funds have to be invested

in creating and mastering data bases). Notably, the continued funding (2004-2012) has built a

recognition for innovation research within KTH and JIBS, affecting priorities in the wider

academic communities. Most important, however, is that the centre organization facilitates the

creation of durable linkages between universities; both in the sense of forming a strong bond

between KTH and JIBS and in building internationally oriented scholarly networks.

Over the past three years, 25 senior researchers have been formally affiliated to the centre,

together with 17 PhD students and 5-10 frequently vising affiliates. Desirably, this core group

could be 30-40 percent larger. Beyond that level diseconomies of size are likely to emerge.

Currently we estimate that the number of unique links in our shared research network

correspond to approximately 200. This number should only be allowed to increase if the size

of the centre’s core group also increases.

5 As of May 2013, we consider 25 people as active participants in the local environments at JIBS and KTH.

These are 9 professors of Economics and 1 in Entrepreneurship, 3 associated professors and 7 assistant

professors. The statistic competence is represented by 2 professors, 1 associated professor and 2 assistant

professors.

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3. Research Program and Results

The research program for the period 2010-2012 has been divided into five areas

Work Area 1: Dynamics of firms’ innovation efforts – strategies, resource bases and

evolution

In both manufacturing and service sectors we can observe that a large share of all firms do not

allocate resources to R&D and alike innovation efforts and that another group enters into

innovation activities occasionally. Only a smaller set of firms spend resources on innovation

persistently over extended time sequences. This work area relies on the theoretical building

blocks of evolutionary economics and assesses the dynamics of firms’ innovation efforts. The

research pertains to policy which aims (i) to support the transition of firms to alternative

innovation strategies with long-term R&D commitments and to (ii) develop and restructure

innovation networks of firms. The work area will deliver knowledge of how firms develop

resource bases over time, and the role of R&D and network assets (links, nodes and their

attributes) in these processes.

In the traditional view innovation has only transitory effects on firms’ profitability and growth

by altering its competitive position in the short run. The introduction of innovation gives the

firm a temporary monopoly power by increasing firms’ market-share, which allows for higher

profit until other firms can imitate the innovation (Aghion and Howitt 1992, Klepper 1977).

This approach is for instance common in the literature on first mover advantages and on

patent races.

Major results: A major outcome in this work area from the past three years is that

heterogeneity of firms within an industry has to be emphasized. The heterogeneous

distributions also features persistency properties. The upper quartile of firms in productivity

and other performance indicators remain to a large extent over longer sequences of years.

Another way to formulate this result is to divide firms in each industry into three groups

according to the types of innovation strategy that a firm can choose. In the first group, we find

firms that remain R&D inactive. The second group contains firms that only make R&D efforts

occasionally, most likely in responses to obsolescence of productions or products attributes.

The third group, finally consists of firm that in a persistent way make R&D efforts

systematically each years over longer periods. Firms in the first and in the third group tend to

remain in one and the same group over longer periods, whereas the middle groups moves

between the states on being inactive and temporarily active. This finding contradicts the well-

known Schumpeter idea of temporary advantage. Instead, we find that firms with repeated

innovation efforts managed to stay at the forefront over a sequence of periods. In

consequence, the development of industries and sectors can only be meaningfully depicted

and understood by examining the distribution of performance across firms. The information

about the average performance of the firms in an industry has very little value. This

reconfirms the observations made already by the Swedish economist Eli Heckscher in 1918.

Work Area 2: International networks, export performance and innovation of firms and

sector-grouped firms

The work area comprises studies where consequences of innovation efforts are measured in

terms of export performance, where the latter may be recorded as network links to different

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destination markets, export value flows across destination links and product quality measured

as unit price premium across export links.

Major results: A notable result from the research efforts is an emerging picture of high

volatility for individual export varieties, characterized by a given firm, a given product code

and a given destination. In short time periods such export varieties exit and enter frequently

between years. This means that there are many new varieties entering every year and also that

established varieties disappear. In spite of the high frequency of entry and exit, we can also

observe an almost invariant distribution where a small number of firms have a large number

of export varieties while a large number of firms have a small number of varieties or nu

export varieties at all. One may say that this observation only reflects the size distribution. In

our analyses we find arguments for the view that firms that are large because that they have

continue to managed to develop new export varieties. In a manner that resembles our

conclusion about innovation strategies in work area 1. Moreover, to a very large extent, firms

with numerous export varieties share the properties of firms that are persistent innovators. The

attribute of such firms conform to typical Schumpeterian firm characteristics. Still another

perspective on these results is to observe that firms with high performance tend to be

persistent exporters.

Work Area 3: Knowledge flow networks and innovation results for different sectors

Competitiveness and innovation is to a large extent dependent upon the ability to apply new

knowledge and technology in products, services and their production processes. The creation

and the diffusion of new ideas are processes which imply the integration and recombination of

existing knowledge coming from different sources, locations and organizational positions.

With rapid advancement of knowledge and technology, firms need to secure access to

knowledge and information, and ‘knowledge flow networks’ play an important role in this

context.

Major results: A way of summarizing current results from working area 3 is embedded in the

conclusion that successful innovations depend critically on the conjunction of internal and

external knowledge sources. This holds for both small and large firms. A firm’s internal

knowledge combined with external knowledge sources correlates positively with two

categories of performances measures. The first relates to innovation output measured as price

level of export varieties and number of export varieties. This finding implies that knowledge

accessibility is associated with higher unit price premium and more numerous product

innovations. The second performance category is productivity and growth. Our result suggests

that both productivity and growth is positively affected by rich knowledge flows. An essential

finding is that persistently innovating firms are always superior to other firms across

locations. At the same time, persistent innovators have additional premium from locations

with dense knowledge flow. This premium is quite substantial and can be interpreted as a

reward from learning effects.

Work Area 4: The role of knowledge-intensive service sectors in innovation networks

Both large and small urban regions in the OECD group of countries are rapidly being

transformed to economies that have an expanding share of services as well as an augmented

knowledge intensity of the labor force. Work Area 4 is outlined to investigate the role of

knowledge-intensive business-service suppliers in innovation networks of all type of firms,

including manufacturing, household services and business services. This includes a mapping

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of innovation networks of different business-service sectors in Sweden for a longer time

period to corroborate structural changes.

Major results: Urban regions of different size can be characterized by the volume and

multiplicity in supply of knowledge intense services. The greater the supply of such services,

the greater the knowledge flows in an urban in an urban region. Only firms that commit

themselves to accumulation of internal knowledge through persistent R&D efforts benefit

from being located in places with a large mass of knowledge intense services. This result is

clearly associated the major results from work areas 1-3.

Work Area 5: Entrepreneurship and innovation networks

Work area 5 is associated with many pertinent policy issues. The most apparent concerns

conditions conducive for entrepreneurship in the form of new firms. It also relates to work

area 4 (knowledge intensive services) and its policy relevance. The frequency of product

introduction and formation of new firms increases in knowledge-intensive service industries.

Moreover, entrepreneurial knowledge is spatially sticky, embodied in individuals and

networks connecting relevant people and thereby tacit in nature. This suggests that spatial

relocation and establishment of new interaction links are important policy measures in the

development of sectoral networks.

Major results: Previous research has shown that new firms founded by ex-employees of

incumbent firms (spinoffs/spinouts) is a distinguished group of new firms. Our current

research results provide a picture of intricate findings potentially of great policy implications.

First and foremost, we observe that the frequency of spinoffs can be related to properties of

parent firms. The highest intensity of spinoffs can be found for parent firms which have a

persistent engagement in R&D-efforts. A second finding is that the survival rate of spinoffs is

substantially greater when the parent firm is a persistent innovator and these firms tend to be

larger from the start. A third finding has to do with the economic performance of spinoffs

firms: their productivity is higher and they develop with a higher employment growth over the

first five year period on the market. It could be observed that occasional innovators do not

exhibit the property of giving birth to superior spinoffs. This illustrates once more the

importance of the distinction between persistent and occasional innovators.

4. Impact on stakeholders/policymakers

CESIS research is characterised by a shared ambition of promoting better understanding of

the knowledge infrastructure of the emerging knowledge economy, where knowledge has key

roles both as input and output in the social economic fabric.

We consider the following three groups as our main stakeholders

Students (Education at the undergraduate, master and Phd level).

Decision support organisations (Examples: IVA, TVA, Tillväxtverket, TRAFA, RUP,

Science Parks, Incubators, The interfaces of university and industries)

Decision makers in government and industries (Examples: Planning and decision

making at the local, regional and national level)

With regard to teaching and other university activities, the main objective is to disseminate

insights and conclusions about the role of knowledge and innovation in the development of

the Swedish society. This includes empowering students and researchers with understanding

of processes that fosters and promotes development of new products and spillovers for

different markets including foreign markets.

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CESIS delivers theory, models and practices relevant for analysts in organizations such as

those mentioned above. These stakeholders are also providing feedback with demand for

additional research. A key challenge for outreach activities is and has been to strike a balance

between push- and pull mechanisms, i.e. to balance between actively organizing events and

communication activities and to respond to demands from stakeholders. Largely, the latter

mechanism has been prioritized within CESIS. This is a strategic decision with two

components:

- To actively shape prioritizations about research areas and research questions as well as

recruitment to the CESIS community by the ambition to produce new research

knowledge of high relevance for CESIS stakeholders.

- To build an academic culture in which interaction with stakeholders and

responsiveness towards stakeholder needs are natural ingredients.

At CESIS, research expertise and competence are considered at least as important means for

total impact as the creation of research results per se. In view of this philosophy, temporary

engagements of CESIS researchers on committees, in projects and as expert consultants are

encouraged and regarded as important activities. Recent examples include Gustav

Martinsson’s (who left a position as CESIS researcher for another university during the

evaluation period but remains a CESIS associate) engagement on the government committee

on corporate taxation and Anders Broström’s engagement as project leader for the high-level

research policy forum of the Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. Both these

processes have – and/or are expected to have when finalized – significant impact on public

policy design in areas investigated by CESIS.

While the centre also initiates activities (and hopes to increase the frequency of such activities

during 2014-2016), it has primarily done so in partnership with stakeholders and/or

intermediary organizations. It has been found that matching CESIS research expertise with

expertise in communication and event management in partner organizations is an effective

way to reach out to a wider audience. Collaboration with the Entrepreneurship Forum and

Esbri, two organisations dedicated to providing platforms for research-based dialogues on

issues of innovation, entrepreneurship and economic policy, deserves particular mention.

To illustrate how this strategy works out, three examples are provided in section 9a.

5. Financial Report

The funding supplied by Vinnova for CESIS research and activities has constituted a key

source of funding, enabling the center to purchase and organize micro data, to arrange

workshops and conference, to fund participation in international conferences and other forms

of exchange, etc. A majority of the wage costs related to the research carried out at CESIS is,

however, provided by the centre’s two funding organizations (KTH, JIBS; both through block

grants and through related external funding) and by centre partner organizations.

Among larger grants and projects funding CESIS research, Vinnova is a non-trivial supporter

(beyond the core CESIS grant). During the previous CESIS period (2004-2009), Vinnova

decided to fund a project on R&D-strategies of innovating firms through which CESIS

researchers assembled an international team of leading researchers to produce a book volume6

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which was published by Oxford University Press in 2012. Vinnova recently decided to fund

the project Financial Market Regulations, Entrepreneurship and Firm Growth with 2.4 Million

SEK. Several CESIS researchers contribute to this project, for which Entrepreneurship Forum

and JIBS are formally responsible.

The CESIS research agenda is supported by external grants where CESIS researchers are

main or co-applicants. Recent such grants include “Effects of regulations” (12 MSEK over

four years from the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Memorial Foundation,

Entrepreneurship Forum) and the TIPT-project (5,5 MSEK from the EU structural fund,

JIBS7). Research grants have during the period also been awarded by, among others, the

British Academy, the Hamrin foundation and the Wallander Foundation.

Just as external and internal funds constitute critical sources of funding for CESIS research, so

do activities at the center depend on in-kind contributions from centre partners outside

KTH/JIBS. During the period, University West has contributed administrative and funding

support for the annual international conference known as “the Uddevalla symposium”, the

Swedish Board of Agriculture and Stockholm School of Economics have allowed employees

to participate in CESIS research projects. The intensity of the latter two relationships have

since 2010 declined in intensity due to personnel changes. New relationships providing in-

kind contributions to CESIS has also been established during the period. In particular,

associate researchers Thomas Åstebro, Navid Bazazzian and Almas Heshmati (of HEC Paris

and the University of Seoul, respectively) have visited CESIS continuously to participate in

CESIS research projects funded by their respective universities.

6. Organization and Management of the Centre

Management of the centre:

The management team consists of a director at KTH and a manager at JIBS plus two

coordinators. On average, there is a management meeting every second week. The board of

directors is meeting 3-4 times a year. The whole CESIS-group is meeting twice a year, and

the meetings takes place alternately in Stockholm and in Jönköping.

The collaboration with the board of international advisors takes place in a more context-

oriented, less formalised way: workshops, collaboration in research project, conferences,

special issue and other activities form opportunities for exchanging information about

research programs, specific research projects and practical issues related to the centre.

The main activity of CESIS is “excellent studies on research and innovation” and a central

management topic is to organize the infrastructure and create incentives for research that can

be competitive for publication in top ranked journals and special field journals. For the current

period, these management activities are centered around the five areas described in section 3.

A central part in assessing the quality of the research at the centre is the peer-review process

within established scientific journals. A second important part of our activities is the

contribution of our research in terms of citations in the research literature. Thus, publication

and citation is an important management topic. Most research is documented in the WP series

(more than 300 reports so far), which is accessible through the world-wide open science

system REPEC/IDEA. Since the REPEC/IDEA comprises monthly statistics on both working

7 This project is in collaboration with the SENSE at JIBS.

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papers (with full access) and published articles (with restricted access), the management team

is continuously updated on the attractiveness of the CESIS-research in term of both download

papers and citations. Moreover, the system gives important input to the management team in

form of ranking of the centre and ranking of the individual researchers.

Working papers (first step of the publication process), peer-review books and per-reviewed

are central venues for disseminating our research output within the research community.

Through for instance Entre-articles8 and seminars, the most relevant research results are

disseminated to various stakeholders outside the scientific community. Discussions about

interface with users and government and industry are planned and organized for each of the

five areas.

Interaction with stakeholders

CESIS has a couple of interaction platforms that have been discussed previously in this

document (See chapter 5 on outreach activities). The interaction with stakeholders in the

CESIS context is preliminary an activity of delivery of decision support, and to help the

decision makers to choose between various options for decision by assessing the impact of

different alternatives.

CESIS is organized as an integral part of KTH and JIBS. This also implies that the center

delivers knowledge to be used by both the undergraduate and graduate education. When it

comes to PhD-education, the university integration is further accentuated by the fact that

many doctorial students participate directly in the current research program.

Comment on things that work well and things that don't.

Recognizing the many different activities that CESIS has to carry out, it is quite obvious that

the center would benefit from expanding by about 1/3. Additional resources that could

increase the number of doctoral students that participate in CESIS research would be

welcome. In order to sharpen the quality of the research, and to guarantee the critical mass,

targeted international recruitment of qualified senior researchers in terms of post-doc and

other positions must be considered.

An option that has been tried recently is to improve the muscles of CESIS by means of

collaboration with our sister centers. In particular, we can see the emergence of a growing

number of activities where CESIS has direct collaboration with Circle in Lund. They concern

both peer-review research and outreach activities.

A challenge is to better make use of the Statistics Sweden data sources fragmented across a

set of individual researcher. The reason is that the data is not a collective utility, but belongs

to individual researchers and individual projects. It remains a management problem to

increase the accessibility of the existing data across people.

Among things that work well, one may observe that within CESIS with its two locations, the

learning milieu has developed where ideas and theoretical perspectives diffuse in a fast and

inspiring way. These processes of intellectual exchange also include absorption and diffusion

of new econometric techniques, improvement of data sources and new platforms for

interaction.

8 A popular magazine devoted to innovation and entrepreneurship research, sponsored by Vinnova.

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Already from its start, CESIS has been one the organizers of the annual Uddevalla symposia.

These symposia form an arena where multidisciplinary ideas combine within the field of

innovation analysis. It also constitutes avenue forum for centre researchers to form their

international networks for future collaboration. For the young researchers, this venue often

offers the first early stages of presenting their research in an international context.

Communication procedures

CESIS has a set of different procedures for communicating the research activities. They

include both publications in journals, books, working paper series and various reports. They

also consists of regular meetings with stakeholders, seminars, workshops and similar

activities. The homepage of CESIS is another channel for information about precious and

ongoing work.

Equality of opportunities

CESIS has no formal policy for opportunity equality. It can be noted that the centre staff

reflects the “typical” European university pattern where foreign-born and women are

underrepresented at the most senior levels, but form majorities among PhD students.

Recruitment decisions during the coming three years will determine how this pattern develops

(as two CESIS professors are about to retire and new post-docs will be recruited).

7. Personnel of High Competence

Mutual personal mobility

For persons who have completed their PhD in the CESIS context, over the years there has

been a large mobility to industry, government and academia. About 30 doctors educated in

the CESIS context have been recruited by large multinationals such as Astra Zeneca,

exporting SMEs, the Ministry of finance, the Swedish central bank, the governmental agency

for competition, other governmental agencies such as Trafikanalys and Boverket, and

universities such as Malmö högskola, Lunds universitet, Jönköpings universitet, KTH and

George Mason University. Several people from industry and government have been

encouraged to start a PhD education within the CESIS context. So far, none of these

candidates have completed their studies.

Contribution to the university education

At KTH there is a CESIS designed two-year master program entitled Innovation and Growth

that was initiated at the very start of the CESIS. The program has about 200 applicants

annually and 25 admitted. CESIS is involved in education also at the undergraduate courses

at the department of industrial economics within the civil engineering education program.

CESIS is also providing a specialized PhD course in panel data econometrics at KTH.

At JIBS there is a series of courses in economics and business administration where CESIS

research competence provides relevant inputs. In particular, there is an undergraduate course

on Innovation, trade and location and a PhD course on Innovation and growth.

Recruitment policy and internationalization

One of CESIS ambition is to recruit PhD students to carry out research in the economics of

innovation field and to support these students with collaboration, joint journal articles and

advice from prominent international research partners.

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80 % of CESIS researchers have a first degree from other universities than KTH/JIBS. At

KTH, the majority of the recruited PhD-students have had their first degree from universities

outside Sweden, and the corresponding figure for JIBS is about 20 percent.

The CESIS research centre actively support students to study abroad in order to broaden their

knowledge base and create network connections. These study periods range from single

courses and summer-schools to longer periods of studies abroad. For junior researchers,

financial support for temporary international mobility is also provided from centre resources.

There is a fair gender balance among the CESIS-students and researchers who have

experience of studies abroad.

8. Plans for development

Vision

The vision for CESIS continues to be that of a leading international hub in the Economics of

innovation and innovation systems. This vision implies a focus on orchestration of how

collaborators in the CESIS network visit Stockholm and Jönköping for joint research, and

how members of the Swedish team participate in joint work abroad.

Mission

The mission has two components. As stated in CESIS’ VINNOVA-application (from 2010),

the first component of the mission is to deepen the understanding (i) of firms’ innovation

strategies and (ii) of their firm-specific innovation systems, observable as innovation

networks and knowledge flows. The second part of the mission is to transform new insights

and new puzzling findings into decision support that can be used in projects associated with

concrete decisions about innovation systems design.

Strategy

The CESIS research strategy can be divided into three components: (i) to combine own

analyses relying on Swedish databases with analyses carried out by international research

teams that are invited to participate in analyzing Swedish data, (ii) to arrange opportunities

for CESIS-researchers to participate in studies based on similar data from other countries,

and (iii) to conduct comparative studies of innovation systems across countries with the

objective to draw conclusions about institutional settings in various countries. A prerequisite

for this third aspect is to compile and exploit the growing accessibility to international

databases.

Critical efforts in the strategy are to deepen and sharpen the findings we have made with

regard to: the way firms expand and improve their internal knowledge, understand how

individual firms select and retain their particular innovation strategy, transition dynamics

where firms select a new innovation strategy. It is also warranted to find new ways of

depicting firm-specific knowledge networks, and to clarify how such networks are associated

with firms’ regional innovation milieus.

CESIS carries out systematic, peer-reviewed research focused on innovation systems with the

aim to transform the evidence-based findings to decision-support for innovation policy

making in the Swedish society. A specific objective is to build up and communicate a

research-based pool of knowledge, with theoretical and empirical support, for the design and

implementation of policies for innovation and sustainable growth. To enable this, CESIS has

to extend existing and establish new networks of researchers, policy makers and other

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stakeholders for exchange of knowledge. In focus are dynamic interdependencies in the

development of firms, their industries, interaction networks and institutional milieu.

Innovation policies may consider two alternative perspectives: (1) remedy of market failures

and (2) stimulation of the co-evolution of knowledge, innovation, organizations and

institutions. CESIS stresses evidence-based findings pertaining to the latter policy area, i.e.

co-evolution. The associated policy objective is the development of sectoral and regional

networks in which individual firms can move into states of persistent and sustainable

innovation.

The CESIS innovation systems approach is designed to: (i) systematic quantitative analyses of

innovation systems at different levels primarily using register and survey data on firms,

sectors and regions, while confronting quantitative results with interviews of selected firms

and other information system actors, (ii) how R&D strategies of innovating firms influence an

aggregate sector or a region/country, (iii) assess the evolution of firms, sectors and regions

over time, and the role of dynamic interdependence in these processes. (iv) select research

questions that spring from issues and problems experienced in VINNOVA’s innovation

support activities and programs.

9. Further information

a. Examples of outreach activities

A key objective for CESIS research is to provide decision support for the design and

implementation of innovation policy. CESIS researchers are constantly engaging in exchange

with stakeholders in industry and (various levels of) government. Below, three miniature case

studies of CESIS impact and non-exhaustive list of contributions to public for a during the

period 2010-2012 is presented, to illustrate how CESIS research and research expertise

contribute to knowledge creation processes at a broad set of stakeholders.

1) CESIS continuously takes on studies commissioned by authorities, companies and interest

groups. For example, the Swedish Governmental Agency for Growth Policy Analysis, in

response to a government initiative, commissioned CESIS with writing a report on the role of

KIBS firms in the Swedish economy. The report, which provided a review of relevant

established theory, data collected from CESIS data bases and novel analysis was presented to

and discussed with authorities and further disseminated through a public speech arranged by

the ESBRI foundation.

2) Universities are themselves very important actors in innovation systems. CESIS

researchers have continuously engaged with decision makers at universities on the basis of the

centre’s research competence. The engagement at KTH deserves to be particularly mentioned.

CESIS researchers have engaged in designing, carrying out and interpreting survey-based

research on faculty outreach activities, in surveying university-industry mobility at KTH, and

in presenting research results to the KTH leadership. This engagement is tied to reforms

which are about to double the frequency of personell exchange between KTH and its

stakeholders, establish new high-level partnerships between the university and key

stakeholders and to develop new ways to channel university base funding to environments on

the basis of both research excellence and outreach ability.

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3) In collaboration with the Entrepreneurship Forum, CESIS arranged three public seminars

on economic growth and the environment in Stockholm. The list of speakers included venture

capitalists, entrepreneurs, politicians, journalists and researchers. The seminars were designed

to connect to issues currently under much discussion in Swedish debate (“Funding of green

innovation”; “Potential of green entrepreneurship”; “Smart cities”), contributing research

perspectives to on-going discussions of vital importance.

As further illustration, examples of invited presentations given by CESIS researchers during

2010-2012 are presented below.

Charlotta Mellander: IBM Finance Forum, Oslo (May 2010); Luleå kommun (May 2010); IBM Finance

Forum, Stockholm (May 2010); Partnerskap Skåne, Malmö (May 2011); ACT Innovatum, Trollhättan (Oktober

2011); Executive Master of Strategy, Stockholm (March 2012); Skanska Framtidsdag, Malmö (March 2012);

Stora Tillväxtdagen, Stockholm (April 2012); Invest Gävleborg, Gävle (June 2012); Näringslivets dag, Piteå

(November 2012); Swedish Chamber of Commerce, London (November 2012)

Börje Johansson: Bil Sweden, Almedalen (June 2011); Nordisk infrastrukturkonferens, Helsingborg (November

2011); Handelskammaren i sydvästra Skåne (Februari 2012); Sveriges byggindustrier (January 2012); Tudelat

land, Sveriges Radio (2012)

Charlie Karlsson: Halle Urban Forum December 2012; 5th

Summer Conference in Regional Science, Kiel,

Germany (June 2012); 5th

session of the Team of Specialists on Innovation and Competitiveness Policies;

UNECE, Geneva, Switzerland (April 2012); WUF International Workshop on: “The Wealth of Nations – The

Wealth of Cities. Local Resources as Drivers for Urban and Global Futures”, Naples, Italy (September 2012)

Hans Lööf: Financing innovation in small businesses, Almedalen (June, 2010); Oskarshamn’ s municipality:

Business sector day (May 2011); Unionen 2011: Finansiering av innovationer; Tillväxtverket; Tjänstesektorns

betydelse för kunskapsspridning (2011); Småföretagsdagarna i Örebro (2011); “Future Challenges of the New

Urban World”, Rabat, Morocco (October 2012); The 7th International Symposium on Soft Science, Beijing,

China (October 2012)

Anders Broström: Workshop: Adjunct professors at KTH (November 2011); Royal Academy of Engineering

Sciences. Conference on research policy (November 2012); Swedish Higher Education Authority. Workshop

on quality in graduate education (January 2013)

Johan Klaesson: TTP basprognos med dynamisk lokaliseringsmodell, Jönköping (2011); Investeringar för

näringslivs och samhällsutveckling, Linköping (2012); Tudelat land, Sveriges Radio (2012); Dynamiska

effekter av förändrad tillgänglighet, Linköping (2012)

Pontus Braunerhjelm: European Parliament Workshop on the Impact of the Crisis on SMEs, (February 2010);

OECDs innovationsstrategi - lärdomar för Sverige, Organizer: Innovation för tillväxt, IVA (Febraury 2010);

IVA "Innovation för tillväxt"; granskning av Alliansens inovationspolitik, (May 2010); Nordiska rådets

biståndskongress, (September 2011); GEM-Meeting in Washington, (January 2011); SIEPS seminarium

Europahuset, Europadagen (May 2012); Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2012, (June 2012); Ett ramverk för

innovationspolitiken, IVA (August 2012); Socialdemokraternas riksdagsgrupp, (November 2012).

Johanna Palmberg: Reglab forskarforum (Oktober 2012), Hanken School of Economics: Family owned

businesses; (October 2012)

Part of CESIS outreach activities are reflected in media coverage. CESIS research reports and

external presentations are occasionally mentioned in news items, researchers participate in the

public debate by writing articles and are interviewed by journalists in their capacity as

experts. 285 articles of any of these kinds have been identified as published in Swedish

printed media since 2010.9 Notably, CESIS researcher Pontus Braunerhjelm features in 261 of

these articles.

9b. Deviations from original plan for the activity period

While the CESIS activity plan for 2010-2012 has played an important role to guide activities

during the period, some elements of the plan have been altered during the period. Below, we

briefly comment on discrepancies between plan and outcomes.

9 Source: Retriever Mediaarkivet on-line database, accessed May 15th 2013.

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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

firm-level data. Annals of Regional Science Springer, vol. 46(3), pages 601-620.

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.

21 Broström, A., Lööf, H. (2008). How does University Collaboration Contribute to Successful R&D

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.

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Invited speaker, recent

The International Scientific Workshop “Future Challenges of the New Urban World: What Model of

Development for the Moroccan City?”, Rabat, Morocco

The 7th International Symposium on Soft Science (7th ISSS), Beijing, China 2012

14th

Uddevalla Symposium. Key note speech. Bergamo, Italy 2011

Småföretagsdagarna i Örebro, Örebro Sweden, 2011

Summer school, Micro-Dyn. September, Cambridge. UK, 2010.

Almedalsveckan Visby, Sweden 2010.

Academic Services

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

Regional Science, 47:373-391 [DO1: 10.1007/s00168-010-0377-5, Springer Link.]

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

infrastructure," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 91(3), pages 481-485, 08.

5. Andreas Stephan & Andriy Tsapin & Oleksandr Talavera, 2012. "Main Bank Power, Switching Costs, and

Firm Performance: Theory and Evidence from Ukraine," Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, M.E. Sharpe,

Inc., vol. 48(2), pages 76-93, March.

6. Andreas Stephan, 2012. "The economics of transport: A theoretical and applied perspective – By Jonathan

Cowie, with contributions from Stephen Ison, Tom Rye and Geoff Riddington," Papers in Regional Science,

Wiley Blackwell, vol. 91(3), pages 694-695, 08.

7. Tseveen Gantumur & Andreas Stephan, 2012. "Mergers & acquisitions and innovation performance in the

telecommunications equipment industry," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press, vol.

21(2), pages 277-314, April.

8. Andreas Stephan, 2011. "Locational conditions and firm performance: introduction to the special issue," The

Annals of Regional Science, Springer, vol. 46(3), pages 487-494, June.

9. Flavio Lenz-Cesar & Almas Heshmati, 2012. "An econometric approach to identify determinants of

cooperation for innovation among firms," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol.

19(3), pages 227-235, February.

10. Almas Heshmati & Hyesung Kim, 2011. "The R&D and productivity relationship of Korean listed

firms," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 36(2), pages 125-142, October.

.

Work Area 2: International networks, export performance and innovation of firms and sector-grouped

firms

1. Cook, Gary A.S. & Pandit, Naresh R. & Lööf, Hans & Johansson, Börje, 2012. "Geographic clustering and

outward foreign direct investment," International Business Review, Elsevier, vol. 21(6), pages 1112-1121.

2. Martin Andersson & Börje Johansson, 2012. "Heterogeneous Distributions of Firms Sustained by Innovation

Dynamics-A Model with Empirical Illustrations and Analysis,"Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade,

Springer, vol. 12(2), pages 239-263, June.

3. Gammelgaard, Jens & McDonald, Frank & Stephan, Andreas & Tüselmann, Heinz & Dörrenbächer,

Christoph, 2012. "The impact of increases in subsidiary autonomy and network relationships on

performance," International Business Review, Elsevier, vol. 21(6), pages 1158-1172.

4. Joachim Wagner, 2012. "Exports, Imports and Profitability: First Evidence for Manufacturing

Enterprises," Open Economies Review, Springer, vol. 23(5), pages 747-765, November.

5. Joachim Wagner, 2012. "International trade and firm performance: a survey of empirical studies since

2006," Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), Springer, vol. 148(2), pages 235-267,

June.

6. Vincenzo Verardi & Joachim Wagner, 2012. "Productivity Premia for German Manufacturing Firms

Exporting to the Euro-Area and Beyond: First Evidence from Robust Fixed Effects Estimations," The World

Economy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 35(6), pages 694-712, 06.

7. Alexander Vogel & Joachim Wagner, 2012. "The Quality of the KombiFiD-Sample of Business Services

Enterprises: Evidence from a Replication Study," Schmollers Jahrbuch : Journal of Applied Social Science

Studies / Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, vol. 132(3),

pages 393-403.

8. Joachim Wagner, 2012. "Exports, R&D and productivity: a test of the Bustos-model with German enterprise

data," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 32(3), pages 1942-1948.

9. Joachim Wagner, 2012. "Editorial – KombiFiD – Combined Firm Data for Germany," Schmollers Jahrbuch :

Journal of Applied Social Science Studies / Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Duncker &

Humblot, Berlin, vol. 132(3), pages 359-359.

10. Joachim Wagner, 2012. "The Post-entry Performance of Cohorts of Export Starters in German

Manufacturing Industries," International Journal of the Economics of Business, Taylor and Francis Journals,

vol. 19(2), pages 169-193, July.

11. Joachim Wagner, 2011. "Offshoring and firm performance: self-selection, effects on performance, or

both?," Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), Springer, vol. 147(2), pages 217-247,

June.

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Work Area 3: Knowledge flow networks and innovation results for different sectors

1. 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.

2. Anders Broström, 2012. "Firms’ rationales for interaction with research universities and the principles for

public co-funding," The Journal of Technology Transfer, Springer, vol. 37(3), pages 313-329, June.

3. Anders Broström, 2011. "The Triple Helix: University–industry–government innovation in action – By Henry

Etzkowitz," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 90(2), pages 441-442, 06.

4. Broström, Anders, 2010. "Working with distant researchers--Distance and content in university-industry

interaction," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 39(10), pages 1311-1320, December.

5. Pontus Braunerhjelm & Bo Carlsson, 2011. "Steven Klepper: Recipient of the 2011 Global Award for

Entrepreneurship Research," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 37(2), pages 131-140, September.

Pontus Braunerhjelm & Zoltan Acs & David Audretsch & Bo Carlsson, 2010. "The missing link: knowledge

diffusion and entrepreneurship in endogenous growth," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 34(2),

pages 105-125, February.

6. Richard Florida & Charlotta Mellander & Kevin Stolarick, 2011. "Beautiful Places: The Role of Perceived

Aesthetic Beauty in Community Satisfaction," Regional Studies, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 45(1),

pages 33-48.

7. Richard Florida & Charlotta Mellander & Kevin Stolarick, 2012. "Geographies of scope: an empirical analysis

of entertainment, 1970--2000," Journal of Economic Geography, Oxford University Press, vol. 12(1), pages

183-204, January.

8. Charlotta Mellander & Richard Florida & Kevin Stolarick, 2011. "Here to Stay—The Effects of Community

Satisfaction on the Decision to Stay," Spatial Economic Analysis, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 6(1),

pages 5-24.

9. Charlotta Mellander & Richard Florida & Jason Rentfrow, 2011. "The creative class, post-industrialism and

the happiness of nations," Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Cambridge Political

Economy Society, vol. 5(1), pages 31-43.

10. Richard Florida & Charlotta Mellander & Kevin Stolarick, 2010. "Music scenes to music clusters: the

economic geography of music in the US, 1970 – 2000," Environment and Planning A, Pion Ltd, London, vol.

42(4), pages 785-804, April.

11. Barasinska, Nataliya & Schäfer, Dorothea & Stephan, Andreas, 2012. "Individual risk attitudes and the

composition of financial portfolios: Evidence from German household portfolios," The Quarterly Review of

Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 52(1), pages 1-14.

12. Nils Braakmann & Joachim Wagner, 2011. "Product diversification and stability of employment and sales:

first evidence from German manufacturing firms," Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol.

43(27), pages 3977-3985.

Work Area 4: The role of knowledge-intensive service sectors in innovation networks

1. Hans Lööf, 2010. "Are Services Different Exporters?," Applied Economics Quarterly (formerly:

Konjunkturpolitik), Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, vol. 56(1), pages 99-117.

2. Börje Johansson & Johan Klaesson, 2011. "Agglomeration dynamics of business services," The Annals of

Regional Science, Springer, vol. 47(2), pages 373-391, October.

3. Hans Lööf & Martin Andersson, 2010. "Imports, Productivity and Origin Markets: The Role of Knowledge-

Intensive Economies," The World Economy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 33(3), pages 458-481, 03.

4. Charlotta Mellander & Richard Florida, 2011. "Creativity, talent, and regional wages in Sweden," The Annals

of Regional Science, Springer, vol. 46(3), pages 637-660, June.

5. Charlotta Mellander, 2011. "The wealth and poverty of regions: Why cities matter – By Mario Polèse," Papers

in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 90(3), pages 690-691, 08

6. Richard Florida & Charlotta Mellander, 2010. "There goes the metro: how and why bohemians, artists and

gays affect regional housing values," Journal of Economic Geography, Oxford University Press, vol. 10(2),

pages 167-188, March.

7. Anna Lejpras & Andreas Stephan, 2011. "Locational conditions, cooperation, and innovativeness: evidence

from research and company spin-offs," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer, vol. 46(3), pages 543-575,

June.

8. Almas Heshmati & Yeonhak Kim, 2012. "Time series analysis of interdependent phases of the electricity

industry in South Korea," OPEC Energy Review, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, vol.

36(3), pages 319-348, 09.

Work Area 5: Entrepreneurship and innovation networks

1. Andersson, Martin & Baltzopoulos, Apostolos & Lööf, Hans, 2012. "R&D strategies and entrepreneurial

spawning," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 41(1), pages 54-68.

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2. Pontus Braunerhjelm & Magnus Henrekson, 2013. "Entrepreneurship, institutions, and economic dynamism:

lessons from a comparison of the United States and Sweden," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford

University Press, vol. 22(1), pages 107-130, February.

3. Zoltan Acs & David Audretsch & Pontus Braunerhjelm & Bo Carlsson, 2012. "Growth and

entrepreneurship," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 39(2), pages 289-300, September.

4. Pontus Braunerhjelm & Simon Parker, 2010. "Josh Lerner: recipient of the 2010 Global Award for

Entrepreneurship Research," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 35(3), pages 245-254, October.

5. Pontus Braunerhjelm & Roger Svensson, 2010. "The inventor’s role: was Schumpeter right?," Journal of

Evolutionary Economics, Springer, vol. 20(3), pages 413-444, June.

6. Richard Florida & Charlotta Mellander & Haifeng Qian, 2012. "China’s development

disconnect," Environment and Planning A, Pion Ltd, London, vol. 44(3), pages 628-648, March.

7. Kevin Stolarick & Charlotta Mellander & Richard Florida, 2010. "Creative Jobs, Industries and

Places," Industry & Innovation, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 17(1), pages 1-4

G2-4: Regarding book chapters, conference contributions and popular science articles,

they are too many to be listed in the limited space of this report. But the majority of them can

be linked directly or indirectly to the CESIS working paper series. Please see

http://ideas.repec.org/s/hhs/cesisp.html.

Approximately one fourth of the activities at CESIS are funded by VINNOVA. The

Uddevalla symposia are funded by a broad range of funders including VINNOVA. The

conference in Gothenburg was jointly financed and organized by with School of Business,

Economics and Law University of Gothenburg.

The outreach activities are discussed in section 9.

During the program period 2010-2013, eight per-review books has been edited by members of

the CESIS-research team, and these books also contains paper by both researchers belonging

to the international network and CESIS researches themselves. The eight books are

deliberately focusing on various aspects of the five areas of our current research program. The

most prestigious publication is the 2012 Oxford volume “Innovation and Growth. From R&D

Strategies of Innovating Firms to Economy Wide Technological Change” comprising new

contributions from top scientists from Europe and the US.

Table g.2 Peer-review books edited by CESIS researchers 2010-2012

Books published 2010-2012

WA1: 1

WA2 1

WA3 3

WA4 2

WA5 1

Total 8 books

Work Area 1: Dynamics of firms’ innovation efforts – strategies, resource bases and evolution

Andersson M, Johansson B, Karlsson C, and Lööf H (eds.) 2012, Innovation and Growth. From R&D

Strategies of Innovating Firms to Economy Wide Technological Change. Oxford University Press.

Work Area 2: International networks, export performance and innovation of firms and sector-grouped

firms

Karlsson C, Johansson B and Stough RR (eds.) 2012, Knowledge and Talent In Regional and Global Context.

Edward Elgar.

Work Area 3: Knowledge flow networks and innovation results for different sectors

Karlsson C, Johansson B and Kobayashi K and Stough RR (eds.) 2012, Knowledge and Innovation in Space.

Edward Elgar.

Karlsson C, Johansson B and Stough RR (eds.) 2012, Innovation Technology and Knowledge. Routledge.

Work Area 4: The role of knowledge-intensive service sectors in innovation networks

Klaesson J, Johansson B and Karlsson C (eds.) 2012, Metropolitan Regions: Preconditions and Strategies for

Growth and Development in the Global Economy. Springer.

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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;

Franco, Chiara; Kneller, Richard; Kostevc, Črt; Lopez, Ricardo; Castellani, Davide; Delgatto, Massimo; Heller,

Stafanie; Hiller, Sanne Hussinger, Katrin; Jabbour,Liza; Lööf, Hans; Máñez Castillejo,Juan A; Roberts, Mark;

Rochina Barrachina, Maria E.; Tomasi, Chiara; Wagner, Joachim; Johansson, Börje; Sanchis, Juan A; Schiavo,

Stefano; Serti, Francesco; Tingwall, Patrik; Lodefalk, Magnus; Person, Lars

Symposium, Gothenburg 2012 [in collaboration with the School of Business, Economics

and Law, the University of Gothenburg]

List of Participants the International Symposium, dedicated to the memory of Lennar Hjalmarsson: George

Battese, UNE Business School, University of New England, Armingdale; Söderbom, Måns, University of

Gothenburg; Lars Bergman, Stockholm School of Economics; Anna Widerberg, University of Gothenburg

Keld Laursen, Copenhagen Business School; Constantin Belu, University of Gothenburg; Cristiano Antonelli,

University of Torino; Thomas Sterner, University of Gothenburg; Martin Andersson, Linné University;

Gudbrand Lien, Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Oslo, Norway; Hilde Marit Kvile,

Norweigan University of life science; Subal C. Kumbhakar, Binghamton University, USA; Almas Heshmati,

Korea University, South Korea; Andreas Pyka, University of Hohenheim; Rolf Färe, Oregon State University;

Shawna Grosskopf, Oregon State University; Giannis Karagiannis, University of Macedonia

Jinghai Zheng, University of Gothenburg; Michael Fritsch, Friedrich Schiller University Jena; Torstein Bye,

Statistics Norway and University of Life Sciences; Martin Shrolec, Linné University; Hans Lööf, Royal institute

of technology, Stockholm; Rajiv Banker, Temple University; Sverre Kittelsen, University of Oslo

Ann Veiderpass, University of Gothenburg; Daniela Roughsedge, University of Gothenburg; Bo Sandelin,

University of Gothenburg; Börje Johansson, JIBS; Cary Cook, University of Liverpool; Florin Maican, Research

Institute of Industrial Eonomics, University of Gothenburg; Mathilda Orth, Research Institute of Industrial

Eonomics, University of Gothenburg; Jacques Mairesse, CREST-INSEE; Charlie Karlsson, Jonkoping Business

School; Robin Sickles, Rice University, Houston; Finn Försund, Oslo University; Esfandian Maasoumi, Emroy

University; Carol Dahl, Colorado School of Mines; Peter Schmidt, Michigan State University; Erwin Diewert,

University of British Columbia; Badi H. Baltagi, Syracuse University; William Green, Stern School of Business,

New York; Andreas Stephan, Jonkoping Business School; Inha Oh, Korea Energy Economics Institute

Ana Lozano Vivas, University of Malaga; Björn Asheim, Linné University; Mulu Gebreeyesus, UN-MERIT

Particpants in the book “Innovation and Growth” edited by Martin Andersson CIRCLE, Hans Lööf, CESIS,

Charlie Karlsson CESIS, and Börje Johansson CESIS.

List of key-note speakers at the Uddevalla Symposium 2013-2010

2013: Martin Andersson; CIRCLE, Lund University, Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) and Jönköping

International Business School, Sweden; Thomas B. Astebro; HEC, Paris, France; David Audretsch; University of

Indiana, Institute for Development Strategies, USA; Ron Boschma; Utrecht University, The Netherlands and

CIRCLE, Lund University, Sweden; Maryann Feldman; University of North Carolina, USA; Jolanda Hessels;

Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Michael Hitt; Texas A&M University, USA; Heike Mayer;

Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland; Mark Partridge; Ohio State University, USA; Roger R.

Stough; George Mason University, USA; Siri Terjesen; Indiana University, Bloomington, Kelly School of

Business, USA.

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2012: Michael S. Dahl; Aalborg University, Denmark; Edward Feser; University of Manchester, UK; Michael

Fritsch; Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany; Maureen Kilkenny; National Center for Food and

Agricultural Policy, Washington D.C.,USA; Peter Nijkamp; VU, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands;

Bettina Peters; Center for European Economic Research, Germany; Mirjam van Praag; University of

Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Andreas Pyka; Universität Hohenheim, Germany; James Simmie; Oxford Brookes

University, UK; Roger R. Stough; George Mason University, USA.

2011: Shaker A. Zahra; Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, USA; Charlotta Mellander;

Jönköping International Business School, Sweden; David Audretsch; Indiana University, USA; Johan Klaesson;

Jönköping International Business School & CenSE, Sweden; Andrés Rodriguez-Pose; London School of

Economics, UK; Hans Westlund; The Royal Institute of Technology & Jönköping International Business School,

Sweden; Maryann P. Feldman; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA; Giovanna Dossena; University

of Bergamo, Italy; Hans Lööf; The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; Zoltan J. Acz; George Mason

University, USA.

2010:12

Peter Batey; Univeristy of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK: Annalee Saxenian; University of California,

Berkeley, US; Paul Krugman; Princeton University and London School of Economics; Fujita, Masahisa; Kyoto

University, Japan; Anthony J. Venables; University of Oxford, UK; Thisse; Université catholique de Louvain

(UCL); Belgium; Philip McCann; University of Waikato, New Zealand and University of Reading, UK.

List of contributors to texts in the VINNOVA-financed book “Innovation and Growth”

Zoltan Acs, George Mason Univeristy, US, Martin Andersson, Lund University; Sweden; Christiano Antonelli,

University of Torino, Italy; René Berlderbos, University of Leuven and Maastricht University, Netherlands;

Katarina, Blomkvist, Uppsala University; Pontus Braunerhjelm, CESIS The Royal Institute of Technology

(KTH) and Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum, Sweden; John Cantwell, Rutgers University, US; Tommy

Hoyvarde Clausen, Nordland Research Research Institute, Norway; Geert Duyesters, Tillberg University and

Eindhover University of Technology, Netherlands; David M. Hart, George Mason University, US; Börje

Johansson, CESIS Jönköping International Business School and The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden;

Philip Kappen, Uppsala University, Sweden; Charlie Karlsson, CESIS, JIBS and BTH, Sweden; Alfred

Kleinknecht, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands: Hans Lööf, CESIS The Royal Institute of

Technology, Sweden, Jacques Mairesse, Maastricht University and UNU-MERIT, Netherlands; Anu Phene,

School of Business at George Town University, US; Henk Jan Reinders, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands;

Stephane Robin, University of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne, France; Anna Sabidussi, TiasNimbas Business School,

Tilburg University, Netherlands; Bart Verspagen; Maastricht University and UNU-Merit, Netherlands; Edward

N. Wolff, New York University, Ivo Zander, Uppsala University, Sweden; Feng Zhang, Bill Greehey School of

Business, St Mary’s University, US

Lists of researchers who are members of the organizational committee of work-shop that CESIS arranges

in London 2013: Steven Bond, UK; Rachel Griffith, UK; Mark Roberts, US; Bronwyn Hall, US; Bettina Peters,

Germany; Stephane Robin, France; Jacwues Mairesse, France; Pierre Mohnen, The Netherlands; Andes

Broström, Sweden; Hans Lööf, Sweden

Foreign Visitors to the Center

Professor Garry Cook, Liverpool University, 2013; Phd Student Navid Bazzasian, HEC, Paris2012; Professor

John Cantwell, Rutgers Business School, 2012; Professor Bo Carlsson, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio,

USA, 2011

International visits by CESIS – researchers

Johanna Palmberg, University of Arkansas (2012 and 2013) and National University of Singapore (2013).

Charlotta Mellander, Martin Prosperity Institute at Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto,

Canada.

Gustav Martinsson, Indiana University, 2012

Charlie Karlsson, ERSA, Brussels, Belgium (regularly)

Anders Broström, Copenhagen University, 2013

I. FINANCIAL REPORT

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Organized as a Special ERSA-Uddevalla Symposium session within this ERSA congress which was hosted by

JIBS.

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The financial report should be considered as a preliminary report for the period 2010 10 01-

2013 04 30. The reasons are the following (i) The KTH Agresso-system is not designed for

extracting information for non-calendar year, (ii) CESIS has moved from the ABE-school to

the ITM-school during the current program period and to a part the budget information is still

distributed across the two school, (iii) the coordination between the administrative systems at

JIBS and at KTH are not easily coordinated when the financial report does not follow a

normal budget year. The information from KTH are from the Agresso-system while the

information from JIBS are compilations from different administrative sources.

Table 8: Resources, Swedish Crowns

2010 2011 2012/2013 TOTAL

Cash

VINNOVA, KTH and JIBS 4 500 000 5 500 000 2 400 000 12 400 000

Toronto University 600 000 600 000 600 000 1 800 000

IVA 250 000 250 000 500 000

EU/Tillväxtverket 1 000 000 1 000 000 2 000 000

Tillväxtanalys 225 000 225 000 450 000

Vinnova Book Project 600 000 1 200 000 200 000 800 000

In Kind

10 Doctoral students à 300 000 each

and 2/3 full time professor 4 500 000 4 500 000 4 500 000 13 500 000

Total 10 450 000 12 075 000 8 925 000 31 450 000

Table 9: Expenditures

2010 2011 2012/2013 TOTAL

Cash

Staff KTH 544 071 1 368 091 731 501 1 275 572

External services KTH 65 000 122 022 187 022

Equipment KTH 10 219 10 219

Material running costs etc KTH 85 528 297 004 42 880 425 412

Travel KTH 62 771 55 036 143 414 261 221

Other KTH 932 614 159 380 410 000 1 501 994

Overhead cost KTH 182 058 476 369 242 145 900 572

Staff JIBS 1 200 000 1 200 000 1 200 000 3 600 000

External services JIBS 150 000 150 000 300 000

Equipment JIBS 300 000 300 000 300 000 900 000

Material running costs etc JIBS 150 000 150 000 150 000 450 000

Travel JIBS 300 000 300 000 300 000 900 000

Other JIBS 2 000 000 2 000 000 2 000 000 6 000 000

Overhead cost JIBS 250 000 400 000 300 000 950 000

0

In Kind KTH 2 250 000 2250000 2250000 6 750 000

0

In Kind JIBS 2 250 000 2 250 000 2 250 000 6 750 000

Total 10 517 261 10 052 789 10 591 962 31 162 012

Table 10: All research personnel working at the centre 2010-2013

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Name Sex

Affiliation

(financing source) Other

Category title,

status / position

F /

M University / Partner

Prof / Postdoc / PhD-

stud / Manager etc

Anders Broström M KTH Assistent professor

Martin Andersson M KTH / JIBS Until 2011 Assoc. Prof

Patrik Gustavsson Tingvall M KTH Until 2011

Vardan Hovsepyan M KTH Assistent professor

Börje Johansson M KTH / JIBS Prof./Manager

Hans Lööf M KTH Prof./Manager

Torbjörn Halldin M KTH Until 2012

Pardis Nabavi Larijani F KTH Ph.d

Maxim Savin M KTH Until 2012

Johanna Palmberg F KTH Assistent professor

Mikaela Backman F JIBS Assistent professor

Pontus Braunerhjelm M KTH Prof,

Charlie Karlsson M JIBS Prof,

Johan Klaesson M JIBS Assoc. Prof

Charlotta Mellander F JIBS Prof.

Kristina Nyström F KTH Assoc. Prof

Andreas Stephan M JIBS Prof.

Per Thulin M KTH Assistent professor

Björn Hårsman M KTH Prof.

Almas Heshmati M KTH/Soul University Prof

Thomas Asterbro M KTH/HEC Prof.

Gustav Martinsson M KTH/Handels Assistent professor

Joachim Wagner M KTH/Luneburg university Prof

Table 11: All the contribution from VINNOVA 2010-2013

Project Funding

Centre of Excellence 9 000 000

Book project 2 200 000

Table 12: List of additional funding (Funding to individual CESIS researchers)

Project Funding

The municipality of Oskarshamn 650 000

IVA 500 000

Toronto University 1 800 000

Tillväxtverket/EU 5 500 000 (In collaboration with SENS at JIBS)

Trafikanalys 450 000

J. WEB-PAGES

CESIS: http://www.cesis.kth.se/

Indek, KTH: http://www.kth.se/en/itm/inst/indek

Economics, Finance, Statistics and Informatics, JIBS: http://hj.se/jibs/en/research/departments/economics-

finance-statistics--informatics.html

George Mason University: http://www.gmu.edu/

Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung: http://www.zew.de/

Tillväxtverket: http://www.tillvaxtverket.se/

Tillväxtanalys: http://www.tillvaxtanalys.se/