Accessibility has for many years been a widely used tool in transportation research. Many definitions have been … need for investments in the transport systems. However, accessibility measures can be regarded as the spatial counterparts … different spatial units. We will in this paper against this background show that accessibility is an underused analytical and …

This paper analyzes the role of knowledge in regional economic growth by focusing on knowledge accessibility. The … research question is the following: can the variation in knowledge accessibility between regions in a given period explain the … variation in growth performance of regions in subsequent periods? A main assumption in the paper is that knowledge accessibility …

Accessibility to knowledge and local service markets can be assumed to explain regional growth performance. The role of … between regional productivity measures as gross regional product per square kilometre and accessibility to educated labour. We … accessibility to labour and to purchasing power. We estimate first a cross-section model by using OLS. Second we employ a panel data …

human capital is partly spatially bounded, the size of municipality accessibility to human capital is expected to have a … formation at the municipality level in Sweden and accessibility to human capital, defined as minimum three years at tertiary … accessibility to human capital that has a positive impact on new firm formation. Income per capita has a positive impact and average …

In this paper, we analyze the relationship between knowledge accessibility and regional economic growth in Sweden. The … research question we ask in this paper is the following: can the variation between regions in knowledge accessibility in a … can be modelled using an accessibility approach. An advantage of modelling the interaction potentials at different spatial …

be measured using accessibility measures. Furthermore, accessibility measures can be used to model interaction …

accessibility and innovation. Although accessibility is a key factor in facilitating the processes stressed to be important for … innovations, the relationship between accessibility and innovation is surprisingly unexploited. Scrutinization of the relationship … between accessibility and innovation is necessary in order to fully comprehend regional innovative capacity. Furthermore, such …

of accessibility to university and company R&D for new firm formation. Company R&D is assumed to contain a higher share … of R&D directed towards generating technological knowledge. Hence, the accessibility to such R&D are expected to have a … stronger influence on new firm formation than the accessibility to university R&D. Since knowledge can also be assumed to be …

R&D in Sweden using an accessibility approach. After an extensive literature survey, we develop a simple theoretical …-municipal accessibility to students in higher education, while the accessibility to university R&D turned out to be insignificant …

This paper examines the influence of accessibility to R&D on the regional diversity in Swedish export. A theoretical … and these external effects increase the innovative capacity in regions that have high accessibility to R&D. The model …, the number of exporting firms and the number of export destinations. The hypothesis that regional accessibility to R …