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Can Investment in Intangibles Explain the Swedish Productivity Boom in the 1990s?
Edquist, Harald - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009
After a severe crisis in the early 1990s, the Swedish economy experienced a boom in productivity growth. According to … economists there have been primarily three explanations for the fast productivity growth in 1995–2004: Market reforms, recovery … productivity boom. The results show that investment in intangibles was approximately 246 bn SEK in 2004 or 9 percent of GDP …
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How Much does Sweden Invest in Intangible Assets?
Edquist, Harald - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009
In this paper I attempt to replicate for Sweden the Corrado, Hulten and Sichel (2006) and Marrano and Haskel (2006) working papers on spending on intangible assets in the US and the UK. Based on their measurement methods the total spending on intangibles in Sweden in 2004 was 277 billion SEK or...
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Product Market Reforms and Incentives to Innovate in Sweden
Edquist, Harald; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013
The Swedish economy has developed rapidly since the mid-1990s relative to most comparable countries, in particular relative to almost all other EU-15 countries. We investigate two policy areas that are believed to have been important for the strong economic development in Sweden during the last...
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The Role of Small Firms in China's Technology Development
Lundin, Nannan; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Ping, He; Qian, Jinchang - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007
Science & Technology (S&T) is high on the Chinese policy agenda but there are large uncertainties on the actual S&T development. For instance, previous studies tend to focus only on large and medium-sized enterprises (LMEs). The situation in Chinese small firms is far less explored. This paper...
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Globalization of R&D and China – Empirical Observations and Policy Implications
Lundin, Nannan; Schwaag Serger, Sylvia - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007
As one of the world’s largest recipients of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), China is emerging as a key global player in Research and Development (R&D). This rapid increase in R&D investment is mainly attributed to the effort of strengthening the indigenous innovation capacity of domestic...
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Incentives for Academic Entrepreneurship and Economic Performance: Sweden and the United States
Henrekson, Magnus; Rosenberg, Nathan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000
The recent 'scientification' of commercial technology has brought the interface between universities and industry into sharp focus. In particular, academic entrepreneurship, i.e., the variety of ways in which academics take direct part in the commercialization of research, is widely discussed....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419527
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FDI, Market Structure and R&D Investments in China
Lundin, Nannan; Sjöholm, Fredrik; He, Ping; Qian, Jinchang - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007
FDI can be an important channel for developing countries’ ability to get access to new technology. The impact of FDI on domestically-owned firms’ technology development is less examined but it is frequently argued that technology externalities or demonstration effects could have a positive...
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Commercialization of Patents and External Financing during the R&D-Phase
Svensson, Roger - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2004
Using a unique database on individual Swedish patents, a survival model estimates how different factors influence the time it takes until commercialization starts. To the best of my knowledge, such an analysis has not been undertaken before. For external financing of patent projects and small...
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The “Incentive Subsidy” for Government Support of Private R&D
Fölster, Stefan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1987
An "incentive subsidy" policy for subsidizing private R & D is proposed that can be more efficient, from a social point of view, than subsidy policies in common use such as a "normal" subsidy policy (fixed amount granted at project start), and conditional loans (loan is repaid only if project is...
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The Role of Capital and Other Factors in the Formation and Growth of Firms Started by University Researchers
Olofsson, Christer; Wahlbin, Claes - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989
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