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Accessibility to R&D and Patent Production
Gråsjö, Urban - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2005
The main purpose in this paper is to study to what extent accessibility to R&D can explain patent production. Therefore a knowledge production function is estimated both on aggregated level and for different industrial sectors. The output of the knowledge production is the number patent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644933
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The inventor's role: was Schumpeter right?
Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Svensson, Roger - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007
According to Schumpeter, the creative process of economic development can be divided into three distinguishable stages of invention, innovation (commercialization) and imitation. We show why there is a rationale for the Schumpeterian entrepreneur to also include the inventor in the innovation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645001
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What Do We Learn From Schumpeterian Growth Theory?
Aghion, Philippe; Akcigit, Ufuk; Howitt, Peter - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013
Schumpeterian growth theory has “operationalized” Schumpeter’s notion of creative destruction by developing models based on this concept. These models shed light on several aspects of the growth process which could not be properly addressed by alternative theories. In this survey, we focus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010741440
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The Inventive, the Educated, and the Creative: How Do They Affect Metropolitan Productivity?
Lobo, José; Mellander, Charlotta; Stolarick, Kevin; … - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012
A longstanding research tradition assumes that endogenous technological development increases regional productivity. It has been assumed that measures of regional patenting activity or human capital are an adequate way to capture the endogenous creation of new ideas that result in productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421775
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Functional Regions
Karlsson, Charlie; Johansson, Börje; Stough, Roger - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of entrepreneurship and innovations for economic development in … functional regions and in doing that highlighting the different conditions offered for entrepreneurship and innovations in … functional regions of various sizes. In conclusion, the conditions for entrepreneurship and innovations vary substantially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644965
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The Importance of Accessibility to R&D on Patent Production in Swedish Municipalities
Gråsjö, Urban - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004
The main purpose in this paper is to study to what extent accessibility to R&D can explain patent production. Therefore a knowledge production function is estimated both on aggregated level and for different industrial sectors. The output of the knowledge production is the number patent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644966
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The Geography of Inequality: Difference and Determinants of Wage and Income Inequality across US Metros
Florida, Richard; Mellander, Charlotta - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013
This paper examines the geographic variation in inequality, and it distinguishes between wage and income inequality. Wage inequality is associated with skills, human capital, technology and metro size - in line with the literature on skill-biased technical change. Income inequality is instead...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010741451
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Persistence of profits and the systematic search for knowledge - R&D links to firm above-norm profits
Eklund, Johan; Wiberg, Daniel - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007
Economic theory tells us that abnormal firm and industry profits will not persist for any significant length of time. Any firm or industry making profits in excess of the normal rate of return will attract entrants and this competitive process will erode profits. However, a substantial amount of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644891
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Knowledge Accessibility and Regional Economic Growth
Andersson, Martin; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2005
In this paper, we analyze the relationship between knowledge accessibility and regional economic growth in Sweden. The research question we ask in this paper is the following: can the variation between regions in knowledge accessibility in a given period explain the variation in the growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644898
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Regional Interaction & Economic Diversity - exploring the role of geographically overlapping markets for a municipality’s diversity in retail and durables
Andersson, Martin; Klaesson, Johan - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2006
This paper is devoted to the study of municipal diversity in retail and durables. Specifically, it analyzes how a region’s relative market-accessibility in a system (or hierarchy) of municipalities affects the extent of diversity. In the theoretical part of the paper a simple modelmunicipal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644921