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R&D Strategies and Entrepreneurial Spawning

Andersson, Martin; Baltzopoulos, Apostolos; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010

This paper analyzes how different R&D strategies of incumbent firms affect the quantity and quality of their entrepreneurial spawning. By examining entrepreneurial ventures of ex-employees of firms with different R&D strategies three things emerge: First, firms with persistent R&D investments...

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Key Characteristics of the Small Innovative Firm

Andersson, Martin; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

Despite broad agreement on the strategic role of SMEs (Small and Medium Sized Enterprises) in industrial renewal processes, the lack of systematized and comprehensive information on the nature and level of small innovative firms is striking. This bias is partly explained by an empirical shadow...

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Relating entrepreneurship to economic growth

Karlsson, Charlie; Friis, Christian; Paulsson, Thomas - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004

. It appears impossible to produce a single definition of entrepreneurship and most theoretical approaches yield … concept. Numerous empirical studies have examined the effects of entrepreneurship, but few studies have been undertaken in … of this paper is to provide a critical overview of recent empirical research on the relationship between entrepreneurship …

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A Portrait of the Innovative Firm as a Small Patenting Entrepreneur

Andersson, Martin; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008

This paper examines small innovative entrepreneurs by contrasting patenting firms against non-patenting firms. The empirical analysis is based on new and unique data on internal attributes, location and international trade characteristics for over 20 000 manufacturing firms in Sweden with 1-25...

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