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

Daunfeldt, Sven-Olof; Elert, Niklas; Johansson, Dan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 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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Compulsory Education and Jack-of-all-trades Entrepreneurs

Douhan, Robin - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

Can educational institutions explain occupational choice between wage employment and entrepreneurship? This paper … is more likely to enter into entrepreneurship. In the theoretical model proposed, abilities are an outcome of talent and …

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Taxes and the Choice of Organizational Form by Entrepreneurs in Sweden

Edmark, Karin; Gordon, Roger - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

This paper makes use of individual data for 2004 to 2008 on owners of closely-held businesses in Sweden to estimate the role of both tax and non-tax determinants in the choice to be a closely-held corporation vs. a proprietorship. While lower-income individuals face relatively neutral...

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Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework

Douhan, Robin; van Praag, Mirjam - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...

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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Entrepreneurship Policy and Globalization

Douhan, Robin; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 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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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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The Political Economy of Entrepreneurship: An Introduction

Douhan, Robin; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

In this introductory chapter to a collective volume dealing with the political economy of entrepreneurship,* we argue …, based on a suggested unifying framework, that political economy is a fruitful approach to entrepreneurship. The importance … the selected articles also show that the social value of entrepreneurship must be evaluated as it is realized. Three …

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Israel M. Kirzner: An Outstanding Austrian Contributor to the Economics of Entrepreneurship

Douhan, Robin; Henrekson, Magnus; Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006

Israel M. Kirzner is the 2006 winner of The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research. In … this essay, we present and evaluate his main contributions to the economics of entrepreneurship. The focus is on how … crucial role of entrepreneurship and the individual entrepreneur has become visible to a much broader audience. …

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The Political Economy of Entrepreneurship

Douhan, Robin; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

entrepreneurship/small business, public choice and new institutional economics. The entrepreneurial function is shown to depend … influenced by entrepreneurs. A typology of entrepreneurship is developed to further our understanding of the bilateral effects …

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