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Economic preformance and work activity in Sweden after the crisis of the early 1990s

Davis, Steven J.; Henrekson, Magnus - 2006

Following a severe contraction in the early 1990s, the Swedish economy accumulated a strong record of output growth coupled with a disappointing performance in the labor market. As of 2005, hours worked per person 20-64 years of age are 10.5 percent below the 1990 peak and a mere one percent...

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Bottom-up vs. top-down policies towards the commercialization of university intellectual property

Goldfarb, Brent; Henrekson, Magnus - 2001

What national policies are most efficient in promoting the commercialization of university-generated knowledge? We address this question by characterizing and evaluating the policy pursued in Sweden and the US, two countries that put a great deal of resources into university R&D, but follow very...

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Designing efficient institutions for science-based entrepreneurship: Lessons from the US and Sweden

Henrekson, Magnus; Rosenberg, Nathan - 2000

sharp focus. In particular, academic entrepreneurship, i.e., the variety of ways in which academics take direct part in the … individual decisions involved when educational choice is translated into science-based entrepreneurship. Identifying these … comprehensive government support schemes, science-based entrepre-neurship has been far less important in Sweden compared to the US …

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