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Hernando de Soto : recipient of the 2017 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research

Andersson, Martin; Waldenström, Daniel - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 49 (2017) 4, pp. 721-728

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Entrepreneurship and Second-best Institutions: Going Beyond Baumol’s Typology

Douhan, Robin; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

destructive entrepreneurship. Baumol’s classificatory scheme is built around a limited concept of first-best outcomes and … therefore easily fails to appreciate the true impact of entrepreneurship in real world circumstances characterized by suboptimal … institutions. We present an alternative way of generalizing the notion of entrepreneurship and show how and why it encompasses the …

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Productive and Destructive Entrepreneurship in a Political Economy Framework

Douhan, Robin; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

Recent research has highlighted the role of institutions in channeling entrepreneurs into activities with positive or negative effects on overall productivity. Embedding central elements from these theories into a political economy framework reveals the bilateral causal relation between...

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Characteristics and Performance of New Firms and Spinoffs in Sweden

Andersson, Martin; Klepper, Steven - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

We analyze the rate of formation, the characteristics, and the performance of different types of new firms in Sweden over a decade. Comparisons to Denmark, Brazil, and the U.S. suggest that the environment for new firm formation in Sweden is not markedly different than elsewhere. In line with...

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Local Competitiveness Fostered through Local Institutions for Entrepreneurship

Andersson, Martin; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

We review and assess the role local institutional framework conditions play in fostering local entrepreneurship. The … basic premise is that entrepreneurship is a central driver of economic renewal and change, and that institutions affect both … the supply and direction of entrepreneurship. While local institutions always develop and operate against the backdrop of …

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