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Why big data can make creative destruction more creative - But less destructive

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2023

preferable since it stimulates creative entrepreneurship …

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Entrepreneurial Innovations and Taxation

Persson, Lars - 2013

Many governments promote small businesses for the dual reasons of fostering ‘breakthrough' innovations and employment growth. In this paper we study the effects of tax and subsidy policies on entrepreneurs' choice of riskiness of an innovation project and on their mode of commercializing the...

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Large scope business sector reforms: Has the Swedish business sector become more entrepreneurial than the U.S. business sector?

Andersson, Fredrik; Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - 2016

Recent studies document a 30-year decline in various measures of entrepreneurship in the United States. In contrast … mitigated several hurdles to entrepreneurship. …

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Risky business: Venture capital, pivoting and scaling

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Tåg, Joacim - 2024

The creation and scaling of startups are inherently linked to risk-taking, with various types of owners handling these risks differently. This paper investigates the influence of an active venture capital (VC) market on startups' decisions regarding research and scaling. It outlines conditions...

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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Entrepreneurship Policy and Globalization

Douhan, Robin; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2009

What explains the world-wide trend of pro-entrepreneurial policies in the last few decades? We study entrepreneurial policy in a lobbying model taking into account the con.ict of interest between entrepreneurs and incumbents. It is shown that international market integration leads to more...

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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Entrepreneurship Policy and Globalization

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan - 2020

What explains the world-wide trend of pro-entrepreneurial policies in the last few decades? We study entrepreneurial policy in a lobbying model taking into account the conflict of interest between entrepreneurs and incumbents. It is shown that international market integration leads to more...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857479

The Evolving Domain of Entrepreneurship Research

Persson, Lars - 2014

Research on entrepreneurship has flourished in recent years and is evolving rapidly. This paper explores the history of … entrepreneurship research, how the research domain has evolved, and its current status as an academic field. The need to concretize … confronting the prize committee of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research. Entrepreneurship has developed in many sub …

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Verifying high quality: Entry for sale

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - 2017

When and how do entrepreneurs sell their inventions? To address this issue, we develop an endogenous entry-sale asymmetric information oligopoly model. We show that lowquality inventions are sold directly or used for own entry. Inventors who sell post-entry use entry to credibly reveal...

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Why Entrepreneurs Choose Risky R&D Projects ‒ But Still Not Risky Enough

Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika - 2012

. We also show that commercialization support induces entrepreneurship but may lead to mediocre entrepreneurship by … inducing entrepreneurs to choose less risky projects, whereas R&D support encourages entrepreneurship without affecting the … type of entrepreneurship. Using Swedish patent citation data, we find empirical support for predictions of the model …

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Creative Destruction and Productive Preemption

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan - 2020

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are more likely to be sold (or licensed) to an incumbent due to strategic product market effects on the sales price. Such preemptive acquisitions by incumbents are shown to stimulate...

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