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Swedish business research productivity

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Summary, in English

Sweden experienced an increase in the ratio of granted patents to research and development spending (R&D) between 1989 and 1998, a period when R&D spending grew rapidly. The ratio of patents granted to R&D spending (research productivity) increased by 40% over the period, and the ratio of quality-adjusted patents to R&D exhibited an even more impressive increase of 60%. Sectors with especially high research productivity and quality-adjusted research productivity include low and medium technology manufacturing, chemicals and transportation. However, the growth in quality-adjusted research productivity was primarily generated by the high-tech pharmaceuticals and electronics industries. The service-based sectors experienced a significant increase in R&D spending over the period, but the research productivity decreased.

Publishing year

2011

Language

English

Pages

1081-1118

Publication/Series

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volume

20

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Topic

  • Economic History
  • Economics
  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Keywords

  • O10
  • O31
  • O52

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0960-6491