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Recognizing Macroeconomic Fluctuations in Value Based Management

Oxelheim, Lars; Wihlborg, Clas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2002

Value Based Management (VBM) has become a common tool for ex ante and ex post evaluation of corporate strategies and projects from the perspective of shareholder value maximization (SVM). VBM-frameworks are designed to support investment and divestment decisions, ex post evaluation of management...

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Foreign Direct Investment, Source Country Heterogeneity and Management Practices

Heyman, Fredrik; Nor, Pehr-Johan; Hammarberg, Rickard - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

This paper examines whether and, if so, why source country heterogeneity exists in foreign direct investment (FDI). Using detailed data on all Swedish firms for the period from 1996 to 2009, we find statistical evidence that affiliate performance differs systematically across source countries....

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The Impact of Financial and Social Capital on Performance

Meyerson, Eva M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1991

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The Efficiency of Innovation Subsidies

Fölster, Stefan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989

State subsidies to R & D or innovative investments in firms are organized in many different ways. Examples from the plethora of extant subsidy instruments are tax incentives, grants to researchers, project grants, loans, conditional loans, and grants with royalty rights. Very little is currently...

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The Efficiency of Innovation Subsidies

Fölster, Stefan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989

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Are High-Growth Firms Overrepresented in High-Tech Industries?

Daunfeldt, Sven-Olof; Elert, Niklas; Johansson, Dan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015

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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Patent Scope and Technology Choice

Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

This paper analyzes the effect of an increase in patent scope on R&D and innovation. It presents a model where patent … duplication of R&D. The model predicts that an increase in patent scope can increase the probability of innovation if the … incumbent’s profit increase from innovation is large and the patented technology has a small advantage over the alternative …

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Entrepreneurship and the Theory of Taxation

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

entrepreneurial effort, entrepre-neurial innovation and capital investment. Because of these constraints, the entrepreneurial project …

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The Organization of the Innovation Industry: Entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists and Oligopolists

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

sales price of a developed innovation. This will trigger preemptive acquisitions by incumbents, thus increasing the reward …

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Entrepreneurial Commercialization Choices and the Interaction between IPR and Competition Policy

Gans, Joshua S.; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

entrepreneurs with respect to commercialization as well as the rate of innovation. We find that stronger intellectual property … them. Consequently, we demonstrate that competition policy has a clearer role in promoting a higher rate of innovation in … increasing the rate of entrepreneurial innovation. …

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