Patent data play an important role as indicators of inventive and innovative activity across regions. This paper … incidence. Patent data over Swedish regions 1982-1999 are used to examine the distribution. The paper examines how the … distribution has changed over time in the aggregate and on a technology-by-technology basis. When accounting for quality, patents …

paper applies econometric analysis on firm- and region-level data from Sweden. The knowledge base of firms is captured using …

an initial empirical analysis of the ef- fects associated with the location of KIS,using 107 European regions.The results … could spill over into the neighbouring regions. …

Abstract Access to global innovation networks (GINs) has been unequal across the regions of the world. While certain … regions are considered knowledge hubs in GINs, others still remain marginalized; this points to the role of regional … European, Chinese and Indian regions. The results show that GINs are more common in regions which are not organizationally and …

consequences at the territorial level reinforcing the existing high inequalities among regions. Another crucial feature to be … to identify the “knowledge regions” in Europe and to examine their main territorial features. To this aim we first build …, for 287 regions belonging to 31 European countries, a comprehensive picture of the two variables - human capital and …

between patents (as a proxy for R&D) and economic growth across the Spanish provinces (NUTS3) over the period 1995-2010. In … patents on economic growth depends on the development degree of provinces. The results show, firstly, that patents act as a … growth driver. Secondly, that there is no evidence of spatial spillovers. And, thirdly, that the effect of patents on growth …

is very important. For our research we made use of the EPO (European Patent Office) database on patents. We used the …