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Using Self-employment as Proxy for Entrepreneurship: Some Empirical Caveats

Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Johansson, Dan; Stenkula, Mikael - 2010

Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being … used as the most common proxy for "entrepreneurship" in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining self …

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Entrepreneurial Innovations and Taxation

Haufler, Andreas; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2012

Many governments promote small businesses for the dual reasons of fostering 'breakthrough' innovations and employment growth. In this paper we study the effects of tax and subsidy policies on entrepreneurs' choice of riskiness of an innovation project and on their mode of commercializing the...

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Why Entrepreneurs Choose Risky R&D Projects - but still not risky enough

Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika; Hjertstrand, Per; … - 2016

business stealing effect. Commercialization support induces entrepreneurship but may lead to mediocre entrepreneurship by … inducing entrepreneurs to choose less risky projects, whereas R&D support encourages entrepreneurship without affecting the … type of entrepreneurship. We develop a regression framework to test empirical predictions of the model. Within our …

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Large scope business sector reforms: Has the Swedish business sector become more entrepreneurial than the U.S. business sector?

Andersson, Fredrik; Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - 2016

Recent studies document a 30-year decline in various measures of entrepreneurship in the United States. In contrast … mitigated several hurdles to entrepreneurship. …

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Why big data can make creative destruction more creative - But less destructive

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2023

preferable since it stimulates creative entrepreneurship …

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Risky business: Venture capital, pivoting and scaling

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Tåg, Joacim - 2024

The creation and scaling of startups are inherently linked to risk-taking, with various types of owners handling these risks differently. This paper investigates the influence of an active venture capital (VC) market on startups' decisions regarding research and scaling. It outlines conditions...

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Are High-Growth Firms Overrepresented in High-Tech Industries?

Daunfeldt, Sven-Olov; Elert, Niklas; Johansson, Dan - 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...

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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Competition and Competition Policy

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2006

We show that, in the case when innovations are for sale, increased product market competition, captured by reduced product market profits, can increase the incentives for innovations. The reason is that the incentive to innovate depends on the acquisition price which, in turn, might increase...

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Gazelles as Job Creators: A Survey and Interpretation of the Evidence

Henrekson, Magnus; Johansson, Dan - 2008

It is often claimed that small and young firms account for a disproportionately large share of net employment growth. We conduct a meta analysis of the empirical evidence regarding whether net employment growth rather is generated by a few rapidly growing firms - so-called Gazelles - that are...

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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Entrepreneurship Policy and Globalization

Douhan, Robin; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2009

What explains the world-wide trend of pro-entrepreneurial policies in the last few decades? We study entrepreneurial policy in a lobbying model taking into account the con.ict of interest between entrepreneurs and incumbents. It is shown that international market integration leads to more...

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