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Svensson, Roger - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015

innovations have been introduced in the market. This paper applies a new method to identify innovations in patent databases by … forward citations. Further, successful innovations are most positively related to patent renewal. Based on the traditional … innovations can be predicted. The developed parameters may be used to identify innovations across sectors and regions in other …

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Innovation Performance and Government Financing

Svensson, Roger - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006

External financing is important when inventors and small technology-based firms wish to commercialize their inventions. However, it is likely that problems related to adverse selection and moral hazard are present, and market failures occur, since inventors know more about the inventions than do...

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The Inventor’s Role: Was Schumpeter Right?

Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Svensson, Roger - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

According to Schumpeter, the creative process of economic development can be divided into three distinguishable stages of invention, innovation (commercialization) and imitation. We show why there is a rationale for the Schumpeterian entrepreneur to also include the inventor in the innovation...

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Nuclear Capacity Auctions

Fridolfsson, Sven-Olof; Tangerås, Thomas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011

We propose nuclear capacity auctions as a means to improve the incentives for investing in nuclear power. A properly designed auction would (i) allocate the license to the most efficient bidder; (ii) sell the license if and only if new nuclear power was socially optimal. In particular, capacity...

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Strategic Investments in the Pulp and Paper Industry: A Count Data Regression Analysis.

Bergman, M.A.; Johansson, P. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000

strategic investments in this industry. Our measure of market size have no - or only very small - effects. …

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The Foreign Operations of Swedish Manufacturing Firms: Evidence from a Survey of Swedish Multinationals 1998.

Ekholm, K.; Hesselman, M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000

This paper presents the results of a survey of Swedish multinationals conducted in 1999. The survey was carried out in order to update an existing database on Swedish manufacturing firms with producing foreign affiliates collected by the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI). The...

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Does Equality Promote Growth?

Folster, S.; Trofimov, G. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996

Several recent articles claim that pre-tax income equlity promotes growth. Equality is argued to dampen demand for redistributive economic policies that tax returns to growth-enhancing activities such as investment. These results rest heavly on the assumption that pre-tax income equality is an...

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Multinationals without Advantages.

Motta, M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996

investments is that thay have firm-pecific advantage with respect to host country firms. …

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Foreign Direct Investment, Capital Formation and Labour Costs: Theory and Evidence for Germany.

Hatzius, J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996

This paper shows that the liberalisation of foreign direct investment (FDI) tends to make the effect of labour costs on domestic investment and labour demand more negative.

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On the Treatment of Finance-Specific Factors within the OLI Paradigm.

Oxelheim, L.; Randoy, T.; Stonehill, A. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

This article argues that the body of foreign direct investment (FDI) literature in general and the ownership, location, and internalization (OLI) paradigm in particular would be enriched if finance-specific factors are explicitly incorporated as drivers of FDI. We suggest that financial...

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