the number of patent applications in Swedish regions is highly and positively dependent on regional technological … concluded that the size of regions is important is an important factor to consider, since this in itself may affect patenting …

Based on unique data covering individuals, firms, industries, and regions for the 1999-2005 period, we contribute with …

The purpose of the paper is to show how entrepreneurship conditions vary between regions of various sizes, and test the … theoretical arguments on why large regions generally should generate more entrepreneurship. The paper empirically ana¬lyzes the … sectors across functional regions, using data from Sweden for the period 1993 to 2004. Employing fixed effects vector …

It is a well known fact that wages have a tendency to be higher in larger regions. The source of the regional … the fact that regions have different industrial compositions. The second part is due to the fact that average regional … productivity differs between regions. Using a decomposition method, akin to shift-share, we are able to separate regional wage …