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- Ejermo, Olof, et al.
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Invention, Innovation and Regional Growth in Swedish Regions
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Ingår i: Uddevalla Symposium 2009. The Geography of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. - Trollhättan : Högskolan Väst. - 9789163355714 ; , s. 449-467
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- We explore the link between invention and innovation on the one hand and the level of economic activity and economic growth in Sweden by using patents granted and the quality of patens as our indicators of invention and innovation respectively. Our results indicate that both types of measures are able to explain the level and the changing levelof economic activity equally well. However, an important difference is that the economic activity is affected differently by the two measures. We find that inventions have the strongest marginal effect in regions where economic activity is the highest. Instead, innovations have similar marginal effects across regions with different economic activity. Our interpretation is that quality-adjusted patents sort out "bad" from "good" patents in a manner which reflect economic importance.
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- Gråsjö, Urban, 1962-, et al.
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The Effects of R&D on Regional Invention and Innovation
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Ingår i: Uddevalla Symposium 2008: Spatial Dispersed Production and Network Governance. - Trollhättan : University West. ; , s. 263-282
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines the effects of regional R&D on patenting for Sweden within an accessibility framework. We use two measures of patenting: number of patents granted per capita and a composite of quality-adjusted patents which we regard as an innovation indicator, respectively. Three conclusions emerge. First, we find that the specification where innovations per capita is used as a dependent variable performs much better than with granted patents per capita for capturing relationships with regional R&D. In fact, quantile regressions over the distribution of different patenting and innovation levels per capita show that R&D efforts within regions affect innovations per capita positively, except for the regions with the lowest levels of R&D. The effetcs on granted patents per capita are less robust and depend inconsistently on the level of R&D. Secondly, accessibility to inter-regional R&D do not affect innovation significantly in our results, which suggests that effects are locally bounded. This implies that studies of the R&D-innovation relationship are plagued by misspecification, since studies tend to show that R&D-effects diffuse to other regions. This is also the case in our study: the inter-regional effects are an important factor for granted patents. Third, the share of university R&D of all regional R&D has no effect on patenting, which suggests that the two types of R&D are substitutes. In view of these results the redommendation must be to use quality-adjusted patents for regional innovation studies rather than patent grants.
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- Sofer, Yotam, et al.
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Drifting on the Academic Highway: Experimental Evidence from a Transition to University
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Ingår i: Academy of Management Proceedings. - 2151-6561 .- 0065-0668. ; 2023:1
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- We examine the effects of the 1999 transition to full university of three former Swedish university colleges: Karlstad, Örebro, and Växjö on scientific output. This change was accompanied by a substantial increase in research funding. Scrutiny of the process reveals that the transition was far from obvious, allowing us to analyze the impact of increased research resources in a quasi-experimental setting. We examine how publications responded when research resources were raised from low levels. We then probe into the consequences on the individual level to understand the difference in gains between staff groups. This work differs from earlier research which has mostly looked at the effects of increases in research funding on established universities or individuals who win research grants. To understand how the transition impacted publication, we use an individual-level publication activity dataset, linked to Swedish register data and university staff registers. We contrast the three treated institutions against a similar group of university colleges that did not become universities in a difference-in-differences analysis combined with matching. We find that treated individual increased their publication rates by 89% per year following the transition. However, we cannot discern any changes in the rate at which publications were cited. On the field level, we show that this effect was mostly explained by increased funding. Additionally, we explore the heterogeneity of treatment effects, potential mechanisms (collaboration, workforce dynamics), and management strategies (using a survey).
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