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 …

Sweden and Spain have developed very distinct systems of innovation over the long term. The former has a highly … cooperation patterns we apply social network analysis methods and study co-patent networks in Sweden and Spain during the second … was greater in Sweden than in Spain. This research opens new paths for further studies both on economic history and …

our indices. Sweden experienced increases in research productivity over the period 1985-1998, a period where Swedish R …

perspective, that is, analyse regions in a specific country. On the contrary, comparisons of regional features have been carried …-intensive services (KIS) in the European regions. For so doing we employ the data provided by the Regional Innovation Scoreboard (RIS …) 2009. This database provides information on the innovation performance across 194 regions of the European Union and Norway …

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 …

perspective, that is, analyse regions in a specific country. On the contrary, comparisons of regional features have been carried …-intensive services (KIS) in the European regions. For so doing we employ the data provided by the Regional Innovation Scoreboard (RIS …) 2009. This database provides information on the innovation performance across 194 regions of the European Union and Norway …