Ejermo, Olof - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2007
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 …