Small business access to credit has been turned upside down in the United States over the last 30 years. It has moved from a difficult problem for small business owners and managers as a group to a relatively modest one. The transformation is largely due to financial services deregulation,...

This paper uses individual-level data from the Swedish 2011 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) to investigate differences with respect to individual characteristics associated with independent entrepreneurs (nascent entrepreneurship and new business ownership) and entrepreneurial employees....

Studien har genomförts på Näringsdepartementets uppdrag för att analysera hinder för investeringar i informations- och kommunikationsteknik (IKT) i mindre företag. IKT är ett viktigt, kanske avgörande, medel för att små och medelstora företag ska klara den intensifierade konkurrens...

In this paper we outline an evolutionary framework of entrepreneurial processes where by firms are started, grow, and exit from the market. We explain the important of such a framework in explaining both what contextual factor affects entrepreneurial processes and in explaining the distinction...

The Nordic Development Finance Institutes (DFIs) have organized an Advisory Council with the task to elaborate on how the Nordic countries can better contribute to growth and prosperity in developing and emerging economies. The Council is asked to address two issues: i) Advise on how development...

In this study we longitudinally examine outcomes of entrepreneurial business planning to access whether this is a fruitful activity or not. We use both data replication and data extension to examine previously published and controversial research. Our empirical setting is a random sample of 623...

Denna rapport beskriver materialet i en ny databas där uppfinnare med svensk adress i europeiska patent länkats samman med registerdata på individer. Material är unikt i sin omfattning: det omfattar 18 489 unika uppfinnare 1978-2009 med 64 procent matchade uppfinnare. Från 2004 har mer än...

Considerable advances, even breakthroughs, have been made during the last decades in our understanding of the relationship between knowledge and growth on one hand, and entrepreneurship and growth on the other. Similarly, more profound insights have also been gained as to how entrepreneurship,...