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The Scientific Output of a Database on Commercialized Patents
Svensson, Roger - 2020
The purpose of this study is to present a unique database on commercialized patents and to illustrate how it can be … used to analyze the commercialization process of patents. The dataset is based on a survey of Swedish patents owned by … commercialization not found anywhere else, including whether, when and how (acquisition, licensing, existing or new firm) patents were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012615417
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The Scientific Output of a Database on Commercialized Patents
Svensson, Roger - 2020
The purpose of this study is to present a unique database on commercialized patents and to illustrate how it can be … used to analyze the commercialization process of patents. The dataset is based on a survey of Swedish patents owned by … commercialization not found anywhere else, including whether, when and how (acquisition, licensing, existing or new firm) patents were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825823
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Productivity Dynamics and the Role of 'Big-Box' Entrants in Retailing
Maican, Florin - 2016
demand while accounting for local markets and the endogeneity of entry. Using data on all retail food stores in Sweden, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013008051
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Entrepreneurial optimism and creative destruction
Persson, Lars; Seiler, Thomas - 2018
We provide empirical evidence that uncertainty (rather than risk) and optimism are distinctive characteristics of high-impact entrepreneurial firms (recently listed firms) relative to old, incumbent firms. Based on this evidence, we construct an entrepreneurial entry predation model with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917094
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Risk-sharing and entrepreneurship
Kilström, Matilda; Roth, Paula - 2022
In this paper, we study the role of risk-sharing in entrepreneurship-driven innovation. Studying entrepreneurship and innovation entails modeling an occupational choice and an effort choice. Risk-sharing may increase the number of individuals who become entrepreneurs by limiting the downside...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013330003
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Making a Market: Infrastructure, Integration and the Rise of Innovation
Andersson, David; Berger, Thor; Prawitz, Erik - 2020
We exploit exogenous variation arising from the historical rollout of the Swedish railroad network across municipalities to identify the impacts of lowered interaction costs on innovative activity. A network connection led to a surge in local innovation due to an increased entry, productivity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012615387
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The Dynamic Impact of Exporting on Firm R&D Investment
Maican, Florín G.; Orth, Matilda; Roberts, Mark J.; … - 2020
Economic theory predicts that outsourcing public services to private firms will reduce costs, but the effect on quality is ambiguous. We explore quality differences between publicly and privately owned ambulances in a setting where patients are as good as randomly assigned to ambulances of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012615434
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Fertile Soil for Intrapreneurship: Impartial Institutions and Human Capital
Ljunge, Martin; Stenkula, Mikael - 2020
Intrapreneurs, entrepreneurial employees, constitute an important force behind innovations in the economy. Yet, what factors that promote intrapreneurship at the country level are an underdeveloped research area. This paper provides a seminal contribution regarding the methodological approach...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012615436
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To Be or Not to Be: The Entrepreneur in Endogenous Growth Theory
Henrekson, Magnus; Johansson, Dan; Karlsson, Johan - 2021
We examine the conceptualization of entrepreneurs in neo-Schumpeterian growth theory, which has reintroduced entrepreneurs into mainstream economics. Specifically, we analyze how neo-Schumpeterians relate to the contradiction between the entrepreneur-centered view of Schumpeter (1934) and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012615453
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To be or not to be: The entrepreneur in neo-Schumpeterian growth theory
Henrekson, Magnus; Johansson, Dan; Karlsson, Johan - 2022
Based on a review of 700+ peer-reviewed articles since 1990, identified using text mining methodology and supervised machine learning, we analyze how neoSchumpeterian growth theorists relate to the entrepreneur-centered view of Schumpeter (1934) and the entrepreneurless framework of Schumpeter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278448