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The location of new firms - Influence of commuting behaviour
Backman, Mikaela; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2015
In this paper, we analyse where people who become self-employed actually start their firms. In the entrepreneurship literature, it is generally assumed that individuals who start a firm start it where they live. We question this general assumption and show that this does not hold for commuters....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273264
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Towards a Dynamic Theory for the Spatial Knowledge Economy
Karlsson, Charlie; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004
In recent decades the world has witnessed the emergence of a global knowledge economy. For example, the evolution in … formation. For the OECD countries in particular, we can observe a transfer from an industrial economy to a knowledge economy …. The supporting evidences are overwhelming and indicate that the trend is global. The emerging knowledge economy have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644956
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Relating entrepreneurship to economic growth
Karlsson, Charlie; Friis, Christian; Paulsson, Thomas - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004
The entrepreneur is an elusive character in economic theory due to the difficulty of providing an accurate description. It appears impossible to produce a single definition of entrepreneurship and most theoretical approaches yield operational difficulties. By the same token, most operational...
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