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are tested using regionally classified Swedish patent application data as a measure of innovativeness. Patent data are … are closer to chemicals than to forestry). These ideas are tested using regionally classified Swedish patent application … data as a measure of innovativeness. Patent data are also used to reflect technological diversity. The results show that …
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The entrepreneur is an elusive character in economic theory due to the difficulty of providing an accurate description. It appears impossible to produce a single definition of entrepreneurship and most theoretical approaches yield operational difficulties. By the same token, most operational...
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This paper rigorously explores the impact of firm’s collaboration with universities on innovation. Specifically, using … average service firm’s innovation sales or propensity to apply for patents. …
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Innovation networking has become both more feasible with improved telecommunication and more important as it usually … uniform. Despite overwhelming evidence on the benefits of collaboration, patent data from 1994-2001 in Sweden demonstrate that … innovation networks are not very common. In addition, the pattern of innovative networks is very fragmented. Our results indicate …
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This paper analyzes how different innovation-strategies of incumbent firms affect the quality of their entrepreneurial … spawns. Using a novel data set that combines employer-employee micro data from Sweden with firm level patent application data … files for the period 1997-2008, three types of incumbent firms are distinguished: firms that are engaged in innovation …
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venture capital, innovation and entrepreneurship has greatly extended and improved our understanding of one of the major … and organization of the venture capital industry. Later, his most important publications on entrepreneurship, innovation …
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One of the claims of this paper is that three Austro-Swedish schools of economics provided much of the foundations for almost all of economic analysis developed after the second world war. Important representatives of the first school are Böhm-Bawerk and Wicksell, Schumpeter and Hayek of the...
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Although Sweden is one of the most R&D-intensive OECD-countries, the importance of R&D spillovers in the country has not been systematically analyzed. This paper employs a cross-sectional dataset of 264 R&D-performing Swedish firms from 1996-97. With this set, knowledge production functions are...
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This paper investigates the effectiveness of a public innovation policy aimed at stimulating private R&D investment … private sources. The empirical analysis is based on the Community Innovation Survey data merged with register data. It is an …
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An empirical method to identify the existence of a spatial cluster is proposed. The method, based upon regression analysis, offers researchers to categorise regions, municipalities, or cities with respect to their over- or under-representation in number of establishments and employment for any...
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