Warda, Peter; Gråsjö, Urban; Karlsson, Charlie - European Regional Science Association - 2012
local R&D expenditure in a European region increases by 1%, the number of patents in that region increases, on average, by 0 … marginally small. Spatial weighting regime seems to matter. If R&D expenditures in other regions are weighted by distance in … kilometers or minutes (instead of a binary contiguity matrix) then the spillover effect will on average be larger. Also, public R&D …