Historical Evidence from Patent Records
2 January 2024
The study conducted by Thor Berger and Erik Prawitz is published in Journal of Urban Economics. It links the expansion of Sweden's 19th-century railroad network to increased collaborative patents, highlighting reduced travel costs as key to technological collaboration.
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