innovators are not protected against others appropriating their ideas, incentives for innovation are suboptimally low. Now in … most industries for most potential users, appropriating a foreign innovation is itself an investment decision fraught with … cost and risk. Nonetheless standard theory predicts too little innovation. Arguably the problem is exacerbated by …

innovators are not protected against others appropriating their ideas, incentives for innovation are suboptimally low. Now, in … most industries and for most potential users, appropriating a foreign innovation is itself an investment decision fraught … with cost and risk. Nonetheless, standard theory predicts too little innovation. Arguably the problem is exacerbated by the …

, within a KPF framework, the relationship between the amount of R&D of firms and universities and the amount of patent …

observations, this paper uses a measure of technological relatedness, calculated from the frequency of patent co-classification to … predict the importance of diversity or concentration of technologies for patent development in Swedish regions. Results …

consistent approach to integrate innovation, space and economic growth into a coherent theoretical framework A potential reason …. To shed some additional light on the spatial dimension of innovation we present results of a first-cut analysis building … on a recently developed cross sectional-time series data set of US innovation, private and university research and high …

are tested using regionally classified Swedish patent application data as a measure of innovativeness. Patent data are … are closer to chemicals than to forestry). These ideas are tested using regionally classified Swedish patent application … data as a measure of innovativeness. Patent data are also used to reflect technological diversity. The results show that …

Although the process of innovation is a crucial aspect of economic growth, there is less clarity about the measurement …