The main purpose in this paper is to study to what extent accessibility to R&D can explain patent production. Therefore … of the knowledge production is the number patent applications in Swedish municipalities from 1994 to 1999. In order to … results indicate that high accessibility (local) to company R&D has the greatest effect on patent production. Local …

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 …

The main purpose in this paper is to study to what extent accessibility to R&D can explain patent production. Therefore … of the knowledge production is the number patent applications in Swedish municipalities from 1994 to 1999. In order to … accessibility (local) to company R&D has the greatest positive effects on patent production. The effects are statistically …