Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 246
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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 … accumulation, investment, and upgrading of knowledge and (ii) the implementation of mechanisms that enable knowledge to be … exploited such that growth and societal prosperity are encouraged. Knowledge is a necessary but far from sufficient condition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011118578
Cover Image
Sweden’s School Choice Reform and Equality of Opportunity
Edmark, Karin; Frölich, Markus; Wondratschek, Verena - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
This study analyses whether the Swedish school choice reform, enacted in 1992, had different effects on students from different socio-economic backgrounds. We use detailed geographical data on students’ and schools’ locations to construct measures of the degree of potential choice. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818364
Cover Image
Pitfalls in the Measurement of the Return to Education: An Assessment Using Swedish Data
Kazamaki Ottersten, Eugenia; Mellander, Erik; Meyerson, … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1994
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818483
Cover Image
Human capital theory: implications for innovation and its applications
Roy, Ipsita - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386224
Cover Image
Knowledge dynamics and technological change : trajectories, networks and policies
Kalthaus, Martin - 2017
Diese Dissertationsschrift untersucht die Prozesse der Entstehung neuen Wissens und des Wissensaustausches. Neues Wissen und die Übertragung in neue Technologien oder die Verbesserung von bestehenden ist ein wesentlicher Treiber wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung. Das bisherige Verständnis über...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167444
Cover Image
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
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818474
Cover Image
Industrial Targeting: Defensive or Offensive Strategies in a Neo-Schumpeterian Perspective
Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1986
incommunicable industrial knowledge, in an international market environment with more or less unbounded, commercial opportunities … of advanced specialized industrial knowledge can be created even in a small, industrial economy. Swedish manufacturing is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019044
Cover Image
Are Female Workers Less Productive Than Male Workers? Productivity and the Gender Wage Gap
Meyerson, Eva M.; Petersen, Trond; Snartland, Vemund - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998
It is extraordinarily difficult to determine the extent to which the gender wage gap reflects discriminatory behaviors by employers or differences in productive capacities between men and women. We note that where piece-rate work is performed, wages should in principle reflect productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019064
Cover Image
The Making of a Manager: Evidence from Military Officer Training
Grönqvist, Erik; Lindqvist, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015
We show that officer training during the Swedish military service has a strong positive effect on the probability to attain a managerial position later in life. The most intense type of officer training increases the probability of becoming a civilian manager by about 5 percentage points, or 75...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276392