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Start-up rates, Entrepreneurship Culture and the Business Cycle. Swedish patterns from national and regional data
Andersson, Martin - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013
It is often claimed that there are locally embedded values and attitudes towards entrepreneurship, exerting a strong … influence on the rate and level of entrepreneurial activity in regions. The concept of regional entrepreneurship culture aims to … their activities in a region. This paper discusses regional entrepreneurship culture as a source of persistent differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010611628
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R&D offshoring and the productivity growth of European regions
Castellani, Davide; Pieri, Fabio - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013
The recent increase in R&D offshoring have raised fears that knowledge and competitiveness in advanced countries may be at risk of `hollowing out'. At the same time, economic research has stressed that this process is also likely to allow some reverse technology transfer and foster growth at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010722782
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Past Experience, Cognitive Frames, and Entrepreneurship: Some Econometric Evidence from the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry
Bhaduri, S.; Worch, H. - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2008
entrepreneurship in a more holistic manner. We provide econometric evidence of the impact of past experience on all three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005824131
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Local Competitiveness fostered through Local Institutions for Entrepreneurship
Andersson, Martin; Henrekson, Magnus - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2014
We review and assess the role local institutional framework conditions play in fostering local entrepreneurship. The … basic premise is that entrepreneurship is a central driver of economic renewal and change, and that institutions affect both … the supply and direction of entrepreneurship. While local institutions always develop and operate against the backdrop of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010765654
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Local Clusters of Entrepreneurs -neighborhood peer effects in entrepreneurship?
Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P. - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013
probability than an individual leaves employment for entrepreneurship. An otherwise average neighborhood with a 5 percentage point …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010722779
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The Growth and Decline of Small firms In Developing Countries
Coad, Alexander; Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2008
Empirical work on micro and small firms has focused on developed countries. The little work that exists on developing countries is all too often based on small samples taken from ad hoc questionnaires. The census data we analyze are fairly representative of the structure of small business in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765366
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Not invented here: Technology licensing, knowledge transfer and innovation based on public research
Buenstorf, Guido; Geissler, Matthias - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2009
Using a new dataset encompassing more than 2,200 inventions made by Max Planck Society researchers from 1980 to 2004, we explore how licensee and technology characteristics affect the licensing and commercialization of technologies from public research. We find no evidence that spin-offs and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008513284
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The Dynamics and Evolution of Local Industries – The case of Linköping
Fredin, Sabrina - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2012
This paper aims to analyse how innovative, individual activities influence the evolution of local industries according to three stages. When discussing the evolution of industries or economies, the concept of path dependency is often a central element. Its vague nature makes it however difficult...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010567961
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Services vs. Manufacturing – How Does Foreign and Domestic Sales Impact on their R&D?
Ejermo, Olof; Bergman, Karin - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013
While the distinction between manufacturing and services becomes increasingly blurred to some observers, we find, using a panel of Swedish firms, clear evidence that foreign sales (exports) are more important than domestic sales for stimulating R&D. This is particularly clear for manufacturing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010722781
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Institutional conditions and innovation systems: on the impact of regional policy on firms in different sectors
Moodysson, Jerker; Zukauskaite, Elena - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2012
This paper deals with institutional conditions in regional innovation systems; how institutions affect the organization of innovation activities among firms, and in what ways regional policy initiatives can be supportive. The analysis draws on data on innovation networks and activities in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651240