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Services vs. Manufacturing – How Does Foreign and Domestic Sales Impact on their R&D?
Ejermo, Olof; Bergman, Karin - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013
towards the foreign market vs. the domestic market to find stimuli for innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010722781
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Swedish Business R&D and its Export Dependence
Bergman, Karin; Ejermo, Olof - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2011
Sweden has seen a rise in business R&D intensities and dependence on exports to make its economy grow since the early 1990s. This paper examines the role of foreign sales for stimulating R&D as compared to a domestic sales effect. In line with the literature, we find in cross-sections from 1991...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009275637
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005148506
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005148510
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077274
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022189
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022190
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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
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022200
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022203
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022204