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Digital transformation as a means to attract innovative establishments to municipalities

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  • Eva Hagsten
  • Martin Thomas Falk

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This study on regional development investigates if digital transformation is a means to attract innovative establishments to municipalities. By doing so, the relationship between the availability of high-speed broadband close by and the number of innovative establishments (workplaces) across all 290 municipalities in Sweden is explored. Panel data for eleven years (2010-2021) originate from official registers. Results based on Fixed Effects Poisson estimations including spatially weighted variables indicate that the digital transformation in the guise of high-speed broadband access is important for ICT (micro) establishments and those in declining municipalities, although the proportion of highly skilled inhabitants renders stronger estimates. For high technology and R&D establishments, access to high-speed broadband is not a relevant location factor. The estimates are robust to endogeneity as tested by the control function approach.

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  • Eva Hagsten & Martin Thomas Falk, 2024. "Digital transformation as a means to attract innovative establishments to municipalities," Information Technology for Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(3), pages 522-541, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:titdxx:v:30:y:2024:i:3:p:522-541
    DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2023.2294041
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