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The Impact of Regulation-Driven Environmental Innovation on Innovation Success and Firm Performance
Rennings, Klaus; Rammer, Christian - In: Industry and Innovation 18 (2011) 3, pp. 255-283
-driven environmental innovation may impose additional costs to firms and lower their profits. On the other hand, eco-innovators could … profit from lower uncertainty in innovation due to regulatory standards and demand-generating effects of regulation. In this … paper we analyse (a) whether regulation-driven environmental innovation generates similar innovation success compared to …
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How labor market institutions affect job creation and productivity growth
Henrekson, Magnus - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) May, pp. 1-10
Economic growth requires factor reallocation across firms and continuous replacement of technologies. Labor market institutions influence economic dynamism by their impact on the supply of a key factor, skilled workers to new and expanding firms, and the shedding of workers from declining and...
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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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Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Economic Dynamism: Lessons from a Comparison of the United States and Sweden
Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Henrekson, Magnus - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012
particular importance for entrepreneurship, innovation-based firm growth and its ensuing impact on the economy. Particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818729
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095045
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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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Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Economic Dynamism: Lessons from a Comparison of the United States and Sweden
Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Henrekson, Magnus - Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum - 2013
particular importance for entrepreneurship, innovation-based firm growth and its ensuing impact on the economy. Particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010616688