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Why Entrepreneurs Choose Risky R&D Projects - But Still Not Risky Enough

Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

Entrepreneurs face higher commercialization costs than incumbents. We show that this implies that entrepreneurs will choose more risky projects than incumbents, aiming to reduce their high expected marginal commercialization cost. However, entrepreneurs may select too safe projects from a social...

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Innovative Change, Dynamic Market Allocation and Long-Term Stability of Economic Growth

Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1986

Market competition is central to innovative activity, the diffusion process and macro-economic productivity growth. Productivity growth at all levels comes about through institutional reconfiguration in response to the ongoing market process. Stable and sustained long-term growth in output...

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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

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Nyetableringar och småföretag i svensk tillverkningsindustri

Braunerhjelm, Pontus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1993

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Small Business Activity Does not Measure Entrepreneurship

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

Entrepreneurship policy mainly aims to promote innovative “Schumpeterian” entrepreneurship. However, the rate of entrepreneurship is commonly proxied using quantity-based metrics, such as small business activity, the self-employment rate or the number of startups. We argue that those metrics...

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Evasive Entrepreneurship and Institutional Change

Elert, Niklas; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

In this paper, we argue that evasive entrepreneurship is an important source of innovation in the economy. Institutions …

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Superentrepreneurship in Europe Compared to Other Industrialised Regions

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

strong performance in technological innovation. …

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Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Human Flourishing

Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

This essay uses Edmund Phelps new book Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs,Challenge, and Change … (Princeton University Press, 2013) as inspiration to discuss innovation and entrepreneurship. The book is laudable for its … innovation and the lack of convincing empirical evidence for the claim that the rate of innovation has slowed. These flaws are …

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Institutional Entrepreneurship: An Introduction

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

In this introductory chapter to a collective volume,* we build on Baumol’s (1990) framework to categorize, catalog, and classify the budding research field that explores the interplay between institutions and entrepreneurship. Institutions channel entrepreneurial supply into productive or...

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Economic Decline in Russia: Disaster or Creative Destruction?

Fölster, Stefan; Trofimov, Georgi - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1994

No abstract.

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