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Creativity as an integral element of social capital and its role for economic performance

Westlund, Hans; Andersson, Martin; Karlsson, Charlie - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

influence on each other. We regard creativity as one of the sources of entrepreneurship and innovation (although creativity also … and values being distributed in them, social capital can promote entrepreneurship and innovation and thus economic growth …, but social capital can have an inhibiting effect on entrepreneurship and innovation. Social capital can contribute to …

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Law, Stock Markets, and Innovation

Brown, James R.; Martinsson, Gustav; Petersen, Bruce C. - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2015

We study a broad sample of firms across 32 countries and find that strong shareholder protections and better access to stock market financing lead to substantially higher long-run rates of R&D investment, particularly in small firms, but are unimportant for fixed capital investment. Credit...

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Relating entrepreneurship to economic growth

Karlsson, Charlie; Friis, Christian; Paulsson, Thomas - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004

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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Regional Knowledge Accessibility and Regional Economic Growth

Karlsson, Carlie; Gråsjö, Urban; Andersson, Martin - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2006

Knowledge is maintained as a core variable for growth in a large set of contemporary theories. In this paper, we analyze the relationship between knowledge accessibility and regional growth. The knowledge resource used in our model R&D conducted at universities and in companies. A precise...

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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...

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Towards a Dynamic Theory for the Spatial Knowledge Economy

Karlsson, Charlie; Johansson, Börje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004

In recent decades the world has witnessed the emergence of a global knowledge economy. For example, the evolution in recent decades of the developed economies has been accompanied by a regional shift in economic activity away from traditional industrial regions to new agglomerations of high...

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The knowledge filter, Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth

Carlsson, Bo; Acs, Zoltan; Audretsch, David; … - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

This paper explores the relationship between knowledge creation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth in the United States over the last 150 years. According to the “new growth theory,” investments in knowledge and human capital generate economic growth via spillovers of knowledge. But the...

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The Effects of FDI Inflows on Host Country Economic Growth

Johnson, Andreas - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2006

This paper discusses and models the potential of FDI inflows to affect host country economic growth. The paper argues that FDI should have a positive effect on economic growth as a result of technology spillovers and physical capital inflows. Performing both cross-section and panel data analysis...

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Designing Democracy: The UTOPIA-project and the Role of Labour Movement in Technological Change, 1981—1986

Lundin, Per - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2006

be seen as an attempt to establish an innovation system in computer system development where these kind of different … values were pursued. The innovation system consisted of industry, research institutes, trade unions, and universities, and …

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Regional Interaction & Economic Diversity - exploring the role of geographically overlapping markets for a municipality’s diversity in retail and durables

Andersson, Martin; Klaesson, Johan - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2006

This paper is devoted to the study of municipal diversity in retail and durables. Specifically, it analyzes how a region’s relative market-accessibility in a system (or hierarchy) of municipalities affects the extent of diversity. In the theoretical part of the paper a simple modelmunicipal...

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