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Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?
Glaeser, Edward; Kerr, William - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2008
Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing startups across cities and industries. Demo- graphics have limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new...
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Clusters of Entrepreneurship
Glaeser, Edward; Kerr, William; Ponzetto, Giacomo - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2009
Employment growth is strongly predicted by smaller average establishment size, both across cities and across industries within cities, but there is little consensus on why this relationship exists. Traditional economic explanations emphasize factors that reduce entry costs or raise...
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND URBAN GROWTH:AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT WITH HISTORICAL MINES
Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R. - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2013
Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near...
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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 … economy. We argue that the latter area has been overlooked in the policy discussion and that a coherent innovation policy …
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Are High-Growth Firms Overrepresented in High-Tech Industries?
Daunfeldt, Sven-Olof; Elert, Niklas; Johansson, Dan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015
It is frequently argued that policymakers should target high-tech firms, i.e., firms with high R&D intensity, because such firms are considered more innovative and therefore potential fast-growers. This argument relies on the assumption that the association among high-tech status, innovativeness...
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Entrepreneurship and the Theory of Taxation
Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
entrepreneurial effort, entrepre-neurial innovation and capital investment. Because of these constraints, the entrepreneurial project …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082489
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The Organization of the Innovation Industry: Entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists and Oligopolists
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009
sales price of a developed innovation. This will trigger preemptive acquisitions by incumbents, thus increasing the reward …
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Entrepreneurial Innovations and Taxation
Haufler, Andreas; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
growth. In this paper we study the effects of tax and subsidy policies on entrepreneurs’ choice of riskiness of an innovation … project and on their mode of commercializing the innovation (market entry versus sale). Limited loss offset provisions in the … fundamental policy trade-off between the declared goals of promoting employment and innovation in small, entrepreneurial firms …
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The Interaction of Entrepreneurship and Institutions
Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010
Previous research, notably Baumol (1990), has highlighted the role of insti-tutions in channeling entrepreneurial supply into productive, unproductive or destructive activities. However, entrepreneurship is not only influenced by institutions—entrepreneurs often help shape institutions...
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Product Market Reforms and Incentives to Innovate in Sweden
Edquist, Harald; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013
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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