caa a22 4500 606165428 CHVBK 20210128100653.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00168-015-0712-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00168-015-0712-y Patterns of innovation and collaboration in small and large firms [Elektronische Daten] [Lina Bjerke, Sara Johansson] This paper explores the patterns of innovation and collaboration by using unique regional survey data on more than 600 Swedish firms. The data also include the smallest firms, which have been largely neglected in the existing literature on innovations. In the context of collaboration, however, small firms are of particular interest because external interactions and joint projects can be expected to play a very central role in innovation processes in firms where internal resources are very limited. The results show that the probability of innovation is higher among collaborating firms, yet not all types of collaborations matter. Extra-regional collaborations appear as most important in promoting firm innovation, and collaboration seems to be most favourable when the partners involved have some organizational or knowledge relatedness. Small firms, in particular, seem to gain from such extra-regional linkages. The Author(s), 2015 Bjerke Lina Jönköping International Business School, Box 1026, 551 11, Jönköping, Sweden aut Johansson Sara Jönköping International Business School, Box 1026, 551 11, Jönköping, Sweden aut The Annals of Regional Science Springer Berlin Heidelberg 55/1(2015-10-01), 221-247 0570-1864 55:1<221 2015 55 168 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-015-0712-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-015-0712-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bjerke Lina Jönköping International Business School, Box 1026, 551 11, Jönköping, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Johansson Sara Jönköping International Business School, Box 1026, 551 11, Jönköping, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Annals of Regional Science Springer Berlin Heidelberg 55/1(2015-10-01), 221-247 0570-1864 55:1<221 2015 55 168