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Nyström, Kristina - Ratioinstitutet - 2011

This paper explores the entrepreneurial experience (and spirit) of Swedish policymakers. To what extent have they been involved in entrepreneurial activities? Are they planning to start any entrepreneurial activities? Are politicians more or less entrepreneurial than their voters? How important...

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Entrepreneurship and Growth

Mueller, Dennis C. - Ratioinstitutet - 2011

In the year 2000 at a meeting in Lisbon, leaders of the European Union (EU) articulated a set of goals for the Union, which have come to be called the Lisbon Strategy or Lisbon Agenda. The agenda had three main goals: to promote growth through innovation, to create a learning economy, and to...

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Implications of Intra-Family and External Ownership Transfer Of Family Firms: Short Term and Long Term Performance

Wennberg, Karl; Wiklund, Johan; Hellerstedt, Karin; … - Ratioinstitutet - 2011

We contrast the performance consequences of intra-family vs. external ownership transfers. Investigating a sample of all private family firms in Sweden that went through ownership transfers during ten years, we find family firms transferred to external owners outperforming those transferred...

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Succession in Private Firms as an Entrepreneurial Process – A Review and Suggestions of New Research avenues

Wennberg, Karl; Nordqvist, Mattias; Bau, Massimo; … - Ratioinstitutet - 2010

In considering firm succession as the acts of both entrepreneurial exit and entry, this paper adds to work that seeks … to integrate entrepreneurship and family business research. We provide a comprehensive literature review of succession … research over the past 35 years and identify seven thematical clusters within which succession can be understood as a distinct …

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The Effectiveness of University Knowledge Spill-Overs: Performance Differences between University Spin-Offs and Corporate Spin-Offs

Wennberg, Karl; Wiklund, Johan; Wright, Mike - Ratioinstitutet - 2010

While much prior research has focused upon how the Technology Transfer Offices and other contextual characteristics shape the level of university spin-offs (USO), there is little research on entrepreneurial potential among individual academics, and to the best of our knowledge, no comparative...

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The Effects of Innovation on Performance of Korean Firms

Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Yee-Kyoung; Kim, Hyesung - Ratioinstitutet - 2006

This study empirically examines the relationship between knowledge capital and performance heterogeneity at the firm level. The model is based on a knowledge production function comprising of four interdependent equations linking innovativeness to innovation input, innovation output and...

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A Generalized Knowledge Production Function

Heshmati, Almas - Ratioinstitutet - 2006

This paper presents a generalized production model based on the knowledge production function. The model allows the relationships between corporate competitiveness strategy, innovation, efficiency, productivity growth and outsourcing to be investigated at the firm level in a number of steps....

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Making Regional Competence Blocs Attractive - On the Critical Role of Entrepreneurship and Firm Turnover in Regional Economic Growth

Eliasson, Gunnar - Ratioinstitutet - 2004

Radically new technology offers the prospect of a New and high productivity Economy for the industrially advanced economies. These opportunities are rapidly taken advantage of by innovative firms operating across national borders. Rapid globalization, therefore, makes the regional dimension of...

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The Exit of Pharmacia and Regional Growth

Fridh, Ann-Charlotte - Ratioinstitutet - 2003

In this paper we ask whether the withdrawal of a major employer (Pharmacia) from a region in Sweden (Uppsala) has had a negative effect on employment growth. We explore the possibility that the exit of Pharmacia may not have had a negative effect on the total employment in the region. It might...

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Comparative Analysis of Firm Dynamics by Size: Korean Manufacturing

Oh, Inha; Heshmati, Almas; Baek, Chulwoo; Lee, Jeong-Dong - Ratioinstitutet - 2006

The Korean economy severely suffered from the Asian financial crisis, and is well known for rapid recovery in the years following. However, the recovery was mainly due to successful restructuring by a limited number of large-sized enterprises (LSEs). The small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)...

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