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Mission-oriented innovation policies are becoming increasingly popular among policymakers and scholars. We maintain that these policies are based on an overly mechanistic view of innovation and economic growth, suggesting that a more bottom-up approach is called for. By invoking an...
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simple theoretical model where risk-sharing may be either private or provided through the welfare state by means of taxation …
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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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-employment. -- Entrepreneurship ; Innovation ; Institutions ; Regulation ; Self-employment …
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, who are renowned specialists in the area and with deep knowledge of the pertinent institutions in Sweden and the US. These … ; Institutions ; Firm growth ; Economic dynamism …
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basic premise is that entrepreneurship is a central driver of economic renewal and change, and that institutions affect both … the supply and direction of entrepreneurship. While local institutions always develop and operate against the backdrop of … and stringency of enforcement) and informal (e.g., attitudes and social legitimacy) institutions. We further argue that …
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In this paper, we argue that evasive entrepreneurship is an important source of innovation in the economy. Institutions … entrepreneur may earn large rents by circumventing institutional impediments. Paradoxically, institutions may be less of a … evasive entrepreneurship may be able to prevent economic development from being sti-fled by existing institutions during times …
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In this paper, I explore the politically contested association between the degree of capitalism, captured by measures of economic freedom, and the risk and characteristics of economic crisis. After offering some brief theoretical considerations, I estimate the effects of economic freedom on...
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for growth. To secure industrial dynamics and growth in the long term, institutions must be designed both to encourage …
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The overwhelming majority of self-employed individuals are not entrepreneurial in the Schumpeterian sense. To unmistakably identify Schumpeterian entrepreneurs, we focus on self-made billionaires (in USD) from the Forbes Magazine list who became wealthy by founding new firms. In this way, we...
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