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The Effects of R&D on Regional Invention and Innovation

Ejermo, Olof - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2008

innovation indicator, respectively. Three conclusions emerge. First, we find that the specification where innovations per capita … with regional R&D. In fact, quantile regressions over the distribution of different patenting and innovation levels per …&D. Secondly, accessibility to inter-regional R&D do not affect innovation significantly in our results, which suggests that …

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Regional innovation measured by patent data – does quality matter?

Ejermo, Olof - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2007

Patent data play an important role as indicators of inventive and innovative activity across regions. This paper examines if the geographical distribution changes and in what direction if patent data are quality-adjusted. A quality index is constructed by means of factor analysis on the...

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The Swedish Paradox arises in Fast-Growing Sectors

Ejermo, Olof; Kander, Astrid; Svensson Henning, Martin - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2008

necessarily a sign of weakness or deficiency of the innovation system, but rather indicates that long-term growth requires large …

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Trends in R&D, innovation and productivity in Sweden 1985-2002

Kander, Astrid; Ejermo, Olof - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2006

We use a new, comprehensive database covering Swedish industry and service firms 1985-2002, to examine trends in the ratio between patenting and R&D (PR-ratio). There is a fall in PR-ratios in the long run (1985-2002) on the aggregate level and for all sectors. In general low-tech sectors...

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Are quality-adjusted patents more geographically clustered than raw patent counts? Evidence using Swedish data

Ejermo, Olof - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2006

that innovations tend to be geographically concentrated. Secondly, innovation data based on patent counts indicate that … of e.g. citations received from later patents) bring them a great deal closer to the innovation concept. At the same time …

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The Effects of R&D on Regional Invention and Innovation

Ejermo, Olof; Gråsjö, Urban - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2008

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Swedish business research productivity – improvements against international trends

Ejermo, Olof; Kander, Astrid - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2007

We use a comprehensive database of Swedish manufacturing and service firms to examine trends in aggregate and sectoral research productivity 1985-1998, defined as the ratio between patenting and R&D. Quality indices are composed of forward and backward citations, family size and opposition. In...

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The Swedish Paradox

Kander, Astrid; Ejermo, Olof - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2006

to have problems in two of these gears, the entrepreneurial climate and innovation to high-tech production. We support …

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Technology and Trade: An Analysis of Technology Specialization and Export Flows

Ejermo, Olof; Andersson, Martin - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2006

This paper examines how technology specialization, measured by citations-weighted patents, affects trade flows. The paper analyzes (i) the relationship between technology specialization and export specialization across regions and (ii) how the technology specialization of origin and destination...

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How does Accessibility to Knowledge Sources Affect the Innovativeness of Corporations? Evidence from Sweden

Ejermo, Olof; Andersson, Martin - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2005

This paper studies the innovative performance of 130 Swedish corporations during 1993-94. The number of patents per corporation is explained as a function of the accessibility to internal and external knowledge sources of each corporation. A coherent way of handling accessibility measures,...

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