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Entrepreneurship and Second-best Institutions: Going Beyond Baumol’s Typology
Douhan, Robin; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
This paper reconsiders the predominant typology pioneered by Baumol (1990) between productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship. Baumol’s classificatory scheme is built around a limited concept of first-best outcomes and therefore easily fails to appreciate the true impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969817
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095045
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011118578
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011211884
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011186638
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Incentive Contracts for Managers Who Discover and Manage Investment Projects
Campbell, Tim; Marino, Tony - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818320
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Agency Costs and Innovation
Holmström, Bengt - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989
(innovation) with easy to measure activities (routine) is particularly costly, since it will either lead to misallocation of … and to financial constraints imposed by capital markets, both of which are hostile to innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818343
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Technology, Economic Competence and the Theory of the Firm
Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1993
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818375
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Företagens, institutionernas och marknadernas roll i Sveriges ekonomiska kris
Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1993
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818376
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Endogenous Economic Growth through Selection
Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1993
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818379