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of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … economy. We argue that the latter area has been overlooked in the policy discussion and that a coherent innovation policy …
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The Swedish economy has developed rapidly since the mid-1990s relative to most comparable countries, in particular relative to almost all other EU-15 countries. We investigate two policy areas that are believed to have been important for the strong economic development in Sweden during the last...
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prerequisite for innovation and entrepreneurship. This is done by putting the spotlight on the role that formal and informal … institutions often act as impediments to entrepreneurship and innovation. We argue that a common yet underappreciated source of …
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It is imperative that the economies of the European Union become more entrepreneurial to promote innovation and … to promote entrepreneurship, innovation and growth. …
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function which, until recently, has been an underappreciated and poorly understood source of innovation and institutional …
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-impact Schumpeterian entrepreneurship relative to the U.S. Once we account for Europe's strong performance in technological innovation, an …
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cost-efficient, long-term improvements, we identify the school system's capacity for knowledge-enhancing innovation as … considering evidence from regular markets that competition and the presence of for-profit actors should spur innovation. Our … analysis suggests that these factors are necessary but not sufficient conditions for innovation, tracing the obstacles to …
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Many countries have implemented quasi-markets to enhance entrepreneurship and innovation in welfare service provision … extensive use of quasi-markets. Based on the Swedish experience, we contend that quasi-markets can unlock their innovation … innovation in quasi-market contexts. Such markets demand a set of supporting institutions of an epistemic nature. These …
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innovative and evasive features. The platform was a radical, widely applied innovation that transformed the Internet landscape …
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contrarian, whereas public policy has a bias toward incremental innovation and replication of past success. If central planners … knew what the next radical innovation would be, there would be no need for Schumpeterian entrepreneurs. Schumpeterian … are too complex to design, and central planning instead reduces the space for organic institutional innovation. …
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