This paper uses register-linked patent records covering an extended period 1985-2007 to analyze detailed demographic … profiles of inventors. The analysis covers about 80 percent of all inventors with Swedish addresses listed on European Patent …

plagued by low pay-off in relation to very high investments in R&D and innovation efforts. Using new data, we show that this … related to the Swedish paradox. We take account of the history of innovation policy in Sweden and – on the basis of the …

towards the foreign market vs. the domestic market to find stimuli for innovation …

&D centres in developing countries. The existing and rather limited literature on globalization of innovation provides four …/regional system of innovation. The empirical research presented in this paper reveals that none of these arguments can fully explain … innovation systems framework. …

quality-adjusted patents for regional innovation studies rather than patent grants. … 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 …

Moser (2004) based on patent statistics. We argue that other methods are required for studying productivity effects and …