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International Regional Science Review, Vol. 31, No. 3, 211-256 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0160017608319335

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

Urban Gråsjö

Jönköping International Business School and University West, Uddevalla, Sweden, urban.grasjo{at}hv.se

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.

Key Words: knowledge production • research and development (R&D) • exports • quantile regression


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