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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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We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly … lower than the social planner’s benchmark, which suggests a role for patent policy. We focus on a “non-infringing inventive … the rate of innovation, as well as a separate optimal required inventive step that maximizes welfare, with the former …
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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 argues that growth theory needs a more general “regularity” concept than that of exponential growth. This offers the possibility of considering a richer set of parameter combinations than in standard growth models. Allowing zero population growth in the Jones (1995) model serves...
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