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Incentives for Academic Entrepreneurship and Economic Performance: Sweden and the United States
Henrekson, Magnus; Rosenberg, Nathan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000
The recent 'scientification' of commercial technology has brought the interface between universities and industry into sharp focus. In particular, academic entrepreneurship, i.e., the variety of ways in which academics take direct part in the commercialization of research, is widely discussed....
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An Innovation Policy Framework: Bridging the Gap between Industrial Dynamics and Growth
Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015
of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … accumulation, investment, and upgrading of knowledge and (ii) the implementation of mechanisms that enable knowledge to be … exploited such that growth and societal prosperity are encouraged. Knowledge is a necessary but far from sufficient condition …
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Sweden’s School Choice Reform and Equality of Opportunity
Edmark, Karin; Frölich, Markus; Wondratschek, Verena - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
This study analyses whether the Swedish school choice reform, enacted in 1992, had different effects on students from different socio-economic backgrounds. We use detailed geographical data on students’ and schools’ locations to construct measures of the degree of potential choice. This...
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Pitfalls in the Measurement of the Return to Education: An Assessment Using Swedish Data
Kazamaki Ottersten, Eugenia; Mellander, Erik; Meyerson, … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1994
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818483
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The Creation of the EC Internal Market and Its Effects on the Competitiveness of Producers in Other Industrial Economies
Eliasson, Gunnar; Lundberg, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818474
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The Effects of Displacement on Self-employment Survival
Nykvist, Jenny - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
A large literature has studied the effect of displacement on labor market outcomes in general, but none has evaluated how the displaced manage as self-employed. This paper studies how the survival of the business is affected by displacement in connection to entry, using a discrete-time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419525
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Is Human Capital the Key to the IT Productivity Paradox?
Mellander, Erik; Savvidiou, Eleni; Gunnarsson, Gudmundur - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001
Unlike previous analyses, we consider (i) that IT may affect productivity growth both directly and indirectly, through human capital interactions, and (ii) possible externalities in the use of IT. Examining, hypothetically, the statistical consequences of erroneously disregarding (i) and (ii) we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419532
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Industrial Targeting: Defensive or Offensive Strategies in a Neo-Schumpeterian Perspective
Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1986
incommunicable industrial knowledge, in an international market environment with more or less unbounded, commercial opportunities … of advanced specialized industrial knowledge can be created even in a small, industrial economy. Swedish manufacturing is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019044
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Are Female Workers Less Productive Than Male Workers? Productivity and the Gender Wage Gap
Meyerson, Eva M.; Petersen, Trond; Snartland, Vemund - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998
It is extraordinarily difficult to determine the extent to which the gender wage gap reflects discriminatory behaviors by employers or differences in productive capacities between men and women. We note that where piece-rate work is performed, wages should in principle reflect productivity...
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Are CEOs Born Leaders? Lessons from Traits of a Million Individuals
Keloharju, Matti; Knüpfer, Samuli - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
Our study combines a near-exhaustive sample of CEOs of Swedish companies with data on their cognitive and non-cognitive ability and height at age 18. Although CEOs, and large-company CEOs in particular, have better traits than the population on average, they are neither exceptional in any of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255285