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entrepreneurs with respect to commercialization as well as the rate of innovation. We find that stronger intellectual property … protection makes it more likely that entrepreneurs will commercialize by cooperating with incumbents rather than competing with … them. Consequently, we demonstrate that competition policy has a clearer role in promoting a higher rate of innovation in …
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where adverse selection problems between entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and incumbents are present. We show that as …' signaling-driven investment, despite the risk of buying a bad innovation. We finally show at what point the presence of active …
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It is frequently argued that policymakers should target high-tech firms, i.e., firms with high R&D intensity, because such firms are considered more innovative and therefore potential fast-growers. This argument relies on the assumption that the association among high-tech status, innovativeness...
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Taxation theory rarely takes entrepreneurship into consideration. We discuss how this omission affects conclusions … entrepreneurship often omitted by standard capital taxation theory are incorporated into the analysis. This includes the lack of a well … entrepreneurial effort, entrepre-neurial innovation and capital investment. Because of these constraints, the entrepreneurial project …
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We construct a model where incumbents can either acquire basic innovations from entrepreneurs, or wait and acquire … sales price of a developed innovation. This will trigger preemptive acquisitions by incumbents, thus increasing the reward …
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growth. In this paper we study the effects of tax and subsidy policies on entrepreneurs’ choice of riskiness of an innovation … project and on their mode of commercializing the innovation (market entry versus sale). Limited loss offset provisions in the … tax system induce entrepreneurs to choose projects with too little risk and this problem arises primarily when …
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institutions is examined in this paper. Entrepreneurs affect institutions in at least three ways. Entrepreneurship abiding by … supply into productive, unproductive or destructive activities. However, entrepreneurship is not only influenced by … institutions—entrepreneurs often help shape institutions themselves. The bilateral causal relation between entrepreneurs and …
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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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deemed to be of particular importance for entrepreneurship, innovation-based firm growth and its ensuing impact on the … economy. Particular aspects of entrepreneurship and economic dynamism are covered by pairs (or in one case three) coauthors …
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We develop a theory of commercialization mode (entry or sale) of entrepreneurial inventions into oligopoly, and show that an invention of higher quality is more likely to be sold (or licensed) to an incumbent due to strategic product market effects on the sales price. Moreover, preemptive...
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