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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Competition and Competition Policy
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006
We show that, in the case when innovations are for sale, increased product market competition, captured by reduced … the bidding competition for the innovation and by increasing the relative profitability of being the most efficient firm … in the industry. Moreover, it is shown that increased intensity of competition can increase the relative profitability of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419538
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The Global Award for Entreprenurship Research
Henrekson, Magnus; Lindström, Anders - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research was instituted in 1996, and it is now firmly established as the leading Prize for outstanding research contributions in the area. Thanks to a generous donation from the Swedish entrepreneur Rune Andersson it has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419519
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419527
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Acquisitions, Entry and Innovation in Network Industries
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Tåg, Joacim - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011
reducing bidding competition, thereby also reducing acquisition prices and innovation incentives. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919575
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Entrepreneurship and Public Policy
Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009
Public policy is currently shifting from SME policy towards entrepreneurship policy, which supports entrepreneurship without directing attention to quantitative goals and specific firms or employment groups. The institutional framework set by public policy affects the prevalence and performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677920
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818543
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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
framework must include tax policy, labor market regulation, savings channeling, competition policy, housing market regulation …
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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 may prevent or raise the cost of exploiting business opportunities, which can trigger evasive behavior because an entrepreneur may earn large rents by circumventing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074887
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Superentrepreneurship in Europe Compared to Other Industrialised Regions
Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
The overwhelming majority of self-employed individuals are not entrepreneurial in the Schumpeterian sense. To unmistakably identify Schumpeterian entrepreneurs, we focus on self-made billionaires (in USD) from the Forbes Magazine list who became wealthy by founding new firms. In this way, we...
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