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Measuring Innovation Using Patent Data
Svensson, Roger - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015
patents; however, most patent databases contain no information on whether patents have been commercialized, i.e., whether … commercialization variables. For this purpose, I use a unique database on Swedish patents that includes information on whether patents …
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Renewal of Patents and Government Financing
Svensson, Roger - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
I apply a survival model to a detailed dataset of Swedish patents to estimate how different factors affect the … likelihood of patent renewal. Since the owners know more about the patents than potential external financiers, there is a problem … venture capital. The empirical results show that patents which have received soft government financing in the R&D-phase have a …
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Commercialization, Renewal and Quality of Patents
Svensson, Roger - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011
One of the major reasons why inventors are awarded patents by governments is they encourage R&D investments and … purpose here is to empirically analyze the relationship between commercialization and the renewal of patents. At the same time … detailed database of Swedish patents, I utilize a survival model to estimate how commercialization influences the patent …
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The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education in High School on Long-Term Entrepreneurial Performance
Elert, Niklas; Andersson, Fredrik; Wennberg, Karl - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015
This paper studies the long-term impact of entrepreneurship education and training in high school on entrepreneurial entry, performance, and survival. Using propensity score matching, we compare three Swedish cohorts from Junior Achievement Company Program (JACP) alumni with a matched sample of...
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Entrepreneurship and Public Policy
Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009
Public policy is currently shifting from SME policy towards entrepreneurship policy, which supports entrepreneurship without directing attention to quantitative goals and specific firms or employment groups. The institutional framework set by public policy affects the prevalence and performance...
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Private Equity and Employees
Olsson, Martin; Tåg, Joacim - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
Using linked employer-employee data from Sweden, a difference-in-difference approach, and 201 private equity buyouts undertaken between 1998 and 2004, we show that unemployment risk declines and labor income increases for employees in the wake of a private equity buyout. Unemployment risk...
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Globalization, Transparency and Economic Growth: The Vulnerability of Chinese Firms to Macroeconomic Shocks
Oxelheim, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
The process of globalization encompasses economic and financial integration. Abolition of capital controls and dismantling of barriers of different kinds are important ingredients of the process that will entirely change the exposure of previously sheltered companies to shocks on the global...
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Sensitivity to Shocks and Implicit Employment Protection in Family Firms
Bjuggren, Carl Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
In this study I present empirical evidence that employment in family firms is less sensitive to performance and product market fluctuations, both at the industry and at the firm level. This supports the idea that family firms are able to offer their employees implicit employment protection....
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Entrepreneurship and the Theory of Taxation
Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
Taxation theory rarely takes entrepreneurship into consideration. We discuss how this omission affects conclusions derived from standard models of capital taxation when applied to entrepreneurial income. Some of the defining features of entrepreneurship often omitted by standard capital taxation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082489
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Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Policy
Ganslandt, Mattias - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
Intellectual property rights and competition policy are intimately related. In this paper I survey the economic literature analyzing the interaction between intellectual property law and competition law and how the boundary between these two policies is drawn in practice. Recognizing that...
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