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The Global Award for Entreprenurship Research
Henrekson, Magnus; Lindström, Anders - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research was instituted in 1996, and it is now firmly established as the leading Prize for outstanding research contributions in the area. Thanks to a generous donation from the Swedish entrepreneur Rune Andersson it has been...
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Financing from Family and Friends
Lee, Samuel; Persson, Petra - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
The constraint on informal finance is commonly taken to be high costs and limited supply. But the majority of informal investors – family and friends – is often willing to supply funds at negative returns, and yet many borrowers tap family and friends only as a last resort. We explain this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010581013
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The Rise of Small Business: Causes and Consequences
Carlsson, Bo - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1992
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818459
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The Efficiency of Innovation Subsidies
Fölster, Stefan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989
State subsidies to R & D or innovative investments in firms are organized in many different ways. Examples from the plethora of extant subsidy instruments are tax incentives, grants to researchers, project grants, loans, conditional loans, and grants with royalty rights. Very little is currently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019052
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The Efficiency of Innovation Subsidies
Fölster, Stefan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989
State subsidies to R & D or innovative investments in firms are organized in many different ways. Examples from the plethora of extant subsidy instruments are tax incentives, grants to researchers, project grants, loans, conditional loans, and grants with royalty rights. Very little is currently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019056
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011211884
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Patent Scope and Technology Choice
Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009
This paper analyzes the effect of an increase in patent scope on R&D and innovation. It presents a model where patent … duplication of R&D. The model predicts that an increase in patent scope can increase the probability of innovation if the … incumbent’s profit increase from innovation is large and the patented technology has a small advantage over the alternative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207060
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Entrepreneurship and the Theory of Taxation
Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
entrepreneurial effort, entrepre-neurial innovation and capital investment. Because of these constraints, the entrepreneurial project …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082489
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Erneuerbare Energien - Energiewirtschaftsgesetz: Wie sollte ein zukunftsfähiges Energieversorgungssystem aussehen?
Elsässer, Rainer Frank; Hillebrand, Bernhard; … - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 58 (2005) 04, pp. 05-19
Wie könnte ein zukunftsfähiges Energieversorgungssystem aussehen und welche Bedeutung hat dabei das Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz? Prof. Dr. Rainer Frank Elsässer, E.ON AG, vermisst u.a. die europäische Perspektive. Für Bernhard Hillebrand, EEFA, Münster, und Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ströbele,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013263
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Sind wir schon in der Dienstleistungsgesellschaft angekommen?
Baethge, Martin; Spath, Dieter; Opitz, Marc - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 56 (2003) 18, pp. 3-10
In den letzten Jahren hat sich einiges in Deutschland auf dem Weg zur Dienstleistungsgesellschaft getan. Rein statistisch gesehen kann man bereits von einem Wandel von einer Industrie- zu einer Dienstleistungsgesellschaft sprechen. Aber, nach Prof. Dr. Martin Baethge, Universität Göttingen,...
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