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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552418
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Key Characteristics of the Small Innovative Firm
Andersson, Martin; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
Despite broad agreement on the strategic role of SMEs (Small and Medium Sized Enterprises) in industrial renewal processes, the lack of systematized and comprehensive information on the nature and level of small innovative firms is striking. This bias is partly explained by an empirical shadow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004988933
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A Portrait of the Innovative Firm as a Small Patenting Entrepreneur
Andersson, Martin; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2008
This paper examines small innovative entrepreneurs by contrasting patenting firms against non-patenting firms. The empirical analysis is based on new and unique data on internal attributes, location and international trade characteristics for over 20 000 manufacturing firms in Sweden with 1-25...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644994
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Exporters, Spin-outs and Firm Performance
Lööf, Hans; Nabavi, Pardis - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012
This paper analyzes the relationship between exporters, spin-outs and firm performance. A large body of research has shown that exporters perform better than non-exporters. But are also firms spawn out from exporters better than other new firms in terms of survival, productivity and growth?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009397036
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The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship
Acs, Zoltan; Audrestch, David; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; … - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007
Contemporary theories of entrepreneurship generally focus on the recognition of opportunities and the decision to … exploit them. While the prevailing view in the entrepreneurship literature is that opportunities are exogenous, the most … entrepreneurship and economic growth literatures by developing a knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship. Knowledge created …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645003
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Determinants of entrepreneurship. Is it all about the individual or the region?
Backman, Mikaela; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013
. Despite this fact many explanations to entrepreneurship only considers the personal characteristics of entrepreneurs. This is …. In this pa¬per we illustrate empirically that variations in the rate of entrepreneurship are explained not only in terms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739957
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Determinants of self-employment among commuters and non-commuters
Backman, Mikaela; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014
-commuters. In the entrepreneurship literature it is claimed that the rich-ness and quality of an individual’s business, professional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818741
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The location of new firms - Influence of commuting behaviour
Backman, Mikaela; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2015
In this paper, we analyse where people who become self-employed actually start their firms. In the entrepreneurship … compared to the municipality of residence. Our results indicate that the entrepreneurship literature must reconsider its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273264
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Survival of born global firms – do employee characteristics matter for survival?
Halldin, Torbjörn - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012
This paper investigates whether employee characteristics matter for firm survival. The focus of the paper is on born global firms both within the manufacturing and KIBS industries. A Cox proportional hazard model is implemented to find hazard ratios of the included employee and control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010742098
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Patenting and Entrepreneurial Spawning: An Innovation Strategy Approach
Lööf, Hans; Nabavi, Pardis; Bazzazian, Navid - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010742110