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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729195
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Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Economic Dynamism: Lessons from a Comparison of the United States and Sweden
Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
deemed to be of particular importance for entrepreneurship, innovation-based firm growth and its ensuing impact on the … economy. Particular aspects of entrepreneurship and economic dynamism are covered by pairs (or in one case three) coauthors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010643158
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969817
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645300
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An Innovation Policy Framework: Bridging the Gap between Industrial Dynamics and Growth
Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015
This paper examines policy measures that foster the creation of innovations with high inherent potential and that simultaneously provide the right incentives for individuals to create and expand firms that disseminate such innovations in the form of highly valued products. In so doing, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011118578