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Creative Destruction and Productivity – entrepreneurship by type, sector and sequence

Andersson, Martin; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Thulin, Per - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2011

the productivity of incumbent firms is modeled as a function of firm attributes and regional entrepreneurship activity …. The analysis finds support for positive productivity effects of entrepreneurship on incumbent firms, albeit the effect … sectors appears to be more responsive to regional entrepreneurship, as compared to the productivity of manufacturing firms. …

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Business regulation and red tape in the entrepreneurial economy

Nyström, Kristina - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010

interrelationship between entrepreneurship and the quality of business regulations. The empirical findings indicate that there is a … positive relationship between entrepreneurship, and the quality of business regulations. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008626063

R&D Strategies and Entrepreneurial Spawning

Andersson, Martin; Baltzopoulos, Apostolos; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010

This paper analyzes how different R&D strategies of incumbent firms affect the quantity and quality of their entrepreneurial spawning. By examining entrepreneurial ventures of ex-employees of firms with different R&D strategies three things emerge: First, firms with persistent R&D investments...

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Sources of Persistence in Regional Start-Up Rates - evidence from Sweden

Andersson, Martin; Koster, Sierdjan - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

The relationship between start-up rates and regional economic development has been studied rather extensively in recent years. Dynamics in start-up rates have however received considerably less attention. In this paper we analyze the persistence of start-up rates across Swedish regions over a...

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Product Innovation, Export Entrepreneurship and Regional Characteristics - an analysis of innovation ideas in regions

Andersson, Martin; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

This paper focuses on how characteristics of regions pertaining to local information about product varieties and markets as well as networks for the transmission of information about innovation opportunities influence the arrival of innovation ideas to existing and potential entrepreneurs. We...

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Is Entrepreneurship the Salvation for Enhanced Economic Growth?

Nyström, Kristina - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008

During the last decades, enhancing entrepreneurship has emerged as commonly used policy- measure in order to improve … economic growth. However, is it true that entrepreneurship unambiguously can be claimed to improve economic growth? This paper … intends to review the empirical evidence on the relationship between entrepreneurship on three measures of economic growth …

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The Entrepreneruship-Philanthropy Nexus: Implication for internationalization

Acs, Zoltan; Braunerhjelm, Pontus - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2005

of university-based knowledge and international entrepreneurship. The analysis comprises a detailed case study of Swedish … philanthropy, promoting knowledge creation. International entrepreneurship has been an important mechanism by which this knowledge … entrepreneurship taking advantage of globalization, especially for smaller countries. …

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Knowledge accessibility and New Firm Formation

Karlsson, Charlie; Nyström, Kristina - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2006

This paper investigates the role of knowledge for successful entrepreneurship. The paper explicitly discusses the role …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644953

Entrepreneurship, Knowledge and Economic Growth

Braunerhjelm, Pontus - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

Knowledge plays a critical role in economic development, still our understanding of how knowledge is created, diffused and converted into growth, is fragmented and partial. The neoclassical growth models disregarded the entrepreneur and viewed knowledge as an exogenous factor. Contemporary...

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PRODUCT INNOVATION, EXPORT AND LOCATION OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Andersson, Martin; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2006

This paper introduces a model where new products are introduced by entrepreneurs or innovating firms in a quasi-temporal setting. Market conditions are characterized by monopolistic competition between varieties belonging to the same product group, where varieties can become obsolete over time...

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