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Although institutional reforms are necessary to increase rates of entrepreneurship in European countries, we argue that one-size-fits-all reform strategies are unlikely to be successful. Reform strategies must be informed by a better knowledge of the varieties of European capitalism and the...
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strong performance in technological innovation. …
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-seeking governments. -- Entrepreneurship ; Regulation ; Innovation ; Market Integration ; Lobbying …
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; Innovation ; Institutions ; Property rights ; Regulation ; Self-employment …
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The Swedish economy has developed rapidly since the mid-1990s relative to most comparable countries, in particular relative to almost all other EU-15 countries. We investigate two policy areas that are believed to have been important for the strong economic development in Sweden during the last...
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environmental regulation on innovation and on productivity generally in separate analyses and mostly focusing on the USA. The few … existing studies focusing on Europe investigate the effect of environmental regulation either on green innovation or on … regulation on the output of innovation activity, as proxied by patents, thus providing support in favor of the "weak" PH in line …
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framework. -- Entrepreneurship ; Innovation ; Institutions ; Regulation ; Self-employment …
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This paper assesses the relative efficiency of knowledge production in the OECD using a nonparametric DEA approach. Resources allocated to R&D are limited and should therefore be used efficiently given the institutional and legal constraints. This paper presents efficiency scores based on an...
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regulations on innovation. While product and labour market policies usually aim at objectives other than innovation, they may have … positive impact on the innovation performance of a country. Conversely, the relationship between innovation and job protection … labour markets, the lower the adjustment costs imposed by labour market regulation. Moreover, in industries with a ... …
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What explains the world-wide trend of pro-entrepreneurial policies in the last few decades? We study entrepreneurial policy in a lobbying model taking into account the conflict of interest between entrepreneurs and incumbents. It is shown that international market integration leads to more...
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