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Contents: 1. Introduction: setting the stage; identifying the major drivers of globalization / Charlie Karlsson, Andreas P. Cornett and Tina Wallin -- Part I: General aspects of globalization -- 2. Does culture matter? The role of board efficacy, growth and competitiveness in Western and Asian Corporate Governance / Ossi Pesämaa and Martin Svensson -- 3. The impact of technology spillovers and international knowledge flows on the productivity and innovativeness of UK multinationals / Gary Cook, Yevgeniya Shevtsova and Hans Lööf -- 4. How does distance determine multinational location choice? A literature review / Trudy-Ann Stone -- Part II: Sector-specific transformations -- 5. Yanagiya: One of the best practice manufacturing SMEs in Japan / Makoto Hirano, Mitsuhiro Kurashige and Kiyonori Sakakibara -- 6. ICT as a driver of innovation : a life cycle approach / Ola Olsson -- Part III: Implications for regions in general -- 7. Knowledge-based strategies and sources of growth in small and medium-sized cities: a lesson from the literature / Amjad Naveed -- 8. Location, location, location: place-specific human capital, rural firm entry and firm survival / Georgeanne M. Artz, Zizhen Guo, and Peter F. Orazem -- 9. Succeeding generations, changing trajectories : influences of generational transition on local development experiences / Ozan Hovardaoǧlu -- 10. The Swedish commuting pattern : a gravity model of commuting, with housing-expenditure and income constraints / Michael Olsson -- Part IV: Implications for cross-border regions -- 11. Employment and economic activity in different Swedish border regions / Tobias Arvemo and Urban Gråsjö -- 12. Identifying potential human capital creation within the cross-border institutional thickness model in the Rhine-Waal Region / Nino Javakhishvili-Larsen, Andreas P. Cornett, and Martin Klatt -- Index.

Theoretical considerations suggest that secrecy reduces spillovers almost completely through non-disclosure, while the disclosure requirement of patents generates some spillover and at the same time allows firms to appropriate knowledge. In this paper we empirically analyze whether protection by secrecy or protection by patents is associated with lower knowledge spillovers. Since the amount of knowledge spillovers is hard to measure directly, we look at the impact of the usage of protection methods in an industry on the innovation activities of firms using external knowledge. One goal is to assess if firms have moved to a more open innovation business model, i.e. allow more knowledge spillovers to occur despite using protection methods. Our estimations show that the usage of both, patents and secrecy, hinders the innovation activities of firms through the reduction of spillovers to firms in their own industry. We conclude that the appropriability effect of patents outweighs the disclosure effect. We also find some evidence that the open innovation business model has not been implemented widely.