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Technology and Trade - an analysis of technology specialization and export flows

Andersson, Martin; Ejermo, Olof - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 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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Scale and Scope - human capital and the structure of regional export flows

Andersson, Martin; Johansson, Sara - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between human capital endowments and the structure of regional export flows. Since the development of each export product may be assumed to be associated with innovation activity, requiring human capital inputs, the core hypothesis...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008546342

Agglomeration and Productivity - evidence from firm-level data

Andersson, Martin; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

Do agglomerations stimulate productivity? An extensive literature on agglomeration economies, or urban increasing … returns, has analyzed this question with aggregated spatial data. This paper estimates the relationship between agglomeration … learning effect in that agglomeration enhances firms’ productivity. Third, the role of agglomeration phenomena does not seem to …

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Sources of Persistence in Regional Start-Up Rates - evidence from Sweden

Andersson, Martin; Koster, Sierdjan - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

The relationship between start-up rates and regional economic development has been studied rather extensively in recent years. Dynamics in start-up rates have however received considerably less attention. In this paper we analyze the persistence of start-up rates across Swedish regions over a...

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Product Innovation, Export Entrepreneurship and Regional Characteristics - an analysis of innovation ideas in regions

Andersson, Martin; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

This paper focuses on how characteristics of regions pertaining to local information about product varieties and markets as well as networks for the transmission of information about innovation opportunities influence the arrival of innovation ideas to existing and potential entrepreneurs. We...

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Entry costs and adjustments on the extensive margin - an analysis of how familiarity breeds exports

Andersson, Martin - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

Fixed entry costs play an important role to explain the heterogeneity among exporters in terms of the geographical scope of their export activities. Yet, the existing literature has paid little attention to the nature and variation of such costs across different markets. This paper proposes a...

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PRODUCT INNOVATION, EXPORT AND LOCATION OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Andersson, Martin; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2006

This paper introduces a model where new products are introduced by entrepreneurs or innovating firms in a quasi-temporal setting. Market conditions are characterized by monopolistic competition between varieties belonging to the same product group, where varieties can become obsolete over time...

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Industry R&D Location – the role of accessibility to university R&D and institutions of higher education

Andersson, Martin; Gråsjö, Urban; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2006

The rapid globalization in recent years has created a radically new competitive situation for the rich industrialized countries. Newly industrialized countries and not least China have become more and more successful in penetrating the markets in the rich industrialized countries with...

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Growth Dynamics in a Municipal Market-Accessibility Hierarchy - Do the ICT service sectors follow the overall pattern?

Andersson, Martin; Klaesson, Johan - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004

This paper analyzes the overall growth pattern of Swedish municipalities in the 1990s. Using an accessibility-based hierarchy of municipalities, we relate growth to intra municipal, intra regional and inter regional accessibility. We explore the growth in (i) population, (ii) employment and...

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CO-LOCATION OF MANUFACTURING & PRODUCER SERVICES – A SIMULTANEOUS EQUATION APPROACH

Andersson, Martin - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004

This paper investigates the tendencies of co-location between producer services and manufacturing across Swedish functional regions. The employment in these industries is modeled as being determined simultaneously, i.e. the location of producer services is a function of the location of...

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