Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/300183 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 4/2024
Publisher: 
Örebro University School of Business, Örebro
Abstract: 
In the paper, we break down business sector R&D at an appropriate regional level (functional analysis regions, FA-regions) in Sweden. We describe the variation and development at the regional level. In an econometric analysis, we examine what affects the location and size of enterprise groups' R&D activities in different FA-regions. We find that enterprise groups concentrate their R&D to the same regions, which are also regions with significant academic R&D (external agglomeration). Moreover, colocation of R&D and manufacturing within an enterprise group in a region (internal agglomeration) appears to be a significant location factor. Last but not least, the local availability of qualified R&D labor is another important localization factor for business sector R&D. Finally, when we compare the results from the econometric analysis with what enterprise groups themselves states as important motives for location, we find that they match quite well.
Subjects: 
business sector R&D
regional location
external agglomeration
colocation of R&D and production
abundance of qualified labor
JEL: 
O32
R11
R12
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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