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Endogenous growth through knowledge spillovers in entrepreneurship: An empirical test

Delmar, Frédéric; Wennberg, Karl; Hellerstedt, Karin - Ratioinstitutet - 2011

Endogenous growth theory is based on the notion that technological knowledge stimulates growth, yet the micro foundations of this process are rarely investigated and remain obscure. Knowledge spillover theory posits that growth is contingent on the technology dependence of industries, forming...

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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...

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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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Practice Makes Perfect: Entrepreneurial-Experience Curves and Venture Performance

Toft-Kehler, Rasmus; Wennberg, Karl; Kim, Phillip - Ratioinstitutet - 2013

This study tackles the puzzle of why increasing entrepreneurial experience does not always lead to improved financial performance of new ventures. We propose an alternate framework demonstrating how experience translates into expertise by arguing that the positive experience-performance...

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The Relationship Between Innovation and New Firm Growth

McKelvie, Alexander; Brattström, Anna; Wennberg, Karl - Ratioinstitutet - 2013

This paper seeks to untangle the relationship between new firm’s innovative activities and subsequent growth. We theorize about the inter-related roles of managerial growth willingness, inputs and outputs of innovative activities, and their subsequent link to sales growth. Investigating a...

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Untangling the relationships among growth, profitability and survival in new firms

Delmar, Frédéric; McKelvie, Alexander; Wennberg, Karl - Ratioinstitutet - 2013

The performance of new firms is important for economic development but research has produced limited knowledge about the key relationships among growth, profitability, and survival for new firms. Based on evolutionary theory, we develop a model about how new firms resolve uncertainty about their...

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Bank Financing of Start-ups – Findings from a survey

Bjuggren, Per-Olof; Elmoznino Laufer, Michel - Ratioinstitutet - 2014

start-ups. Results from a questionnaire sent out to start-ups listed in the files of the Swedish interest organization …

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University Knowledge Spillovers & Regional Start-up Rates: Supply and Demand Side Factors

Hellerstedt, Karin; Wennberg, Karl; Frederiksen, Lars - Ratioinstitutet - 2014

theoretical framework which captures how both supply- and demand-side factors mold the regional bedrock for start-ups in knowledge … intensive industries. Using multi-level data of all knowledge intensive start-ups across 286 Swedish municipalities between 1994 … number of much smaller rural regions also revealed high levels of start-ups. Knowledge spillovers from universities and firm …

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Small business exit: Review of past research, theoretical considerations and suggestions for future research

DeTienne, Dawn; Wennberg, Karl - Ratioinstitutet - 2013

In this chapter we look at exit as a multidimensional and multidisciplinary phenomenon that may involve processes and outcomes operating at multiple levels of analysis. We do so because entrepreneurship research is often considered a phenomenondriven academic field (Shane, 2003; Sorenson and Stuart,...

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Using Self-employment as Proxy for Entrepreneurship: Some Empirical Caveats

Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Johansson, Dan; Stenkula, Mikael - Ratioinstitutet - 2010

Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being used as the most common proxy for “entrepreneurship” in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining selfemployment, making it a somewhat dubious proxy....

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