University-educated Labor, R&D and Regional Export Performance

Urban Gråsjö
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Urban Gråsjö: Jönköping International Business School and University West, Uddevalla, Sweden, urban.grasjo@hv.se

International Regional Science Review, 2008, vol. 31, issue 3, 211-256

Abstract: The main purpose of the study in this paper is to establish to what extent accessibility to R&D and university-educated labor can explain regional export performance. This is done by estimating knowledge production functions, with total export value and number of high-valued exports in Swedish municipalities from 1997 to 1999 as outputs. The results in the paper indicate that accessibility to university-educated labor has the greatest positive effects. The value of exported products is mainly affected by local accessibility to university-educated labor (and company R&D). The intra- and inter-regional accessibilities play a more important role when the number of high-valued export products in Swedish municipalities is the output.

Keywords: knowledge production; research and development (R&D); exports; quantile regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1177/0160017608319335

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