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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

The recent 'scientification' of commercial technology has brought the interface between universities and industry into sharp focus. In particular, academic entrepreneurship, i.e., the variety of ways in which academics take direct part in the commercialization of research, is widely discussed....

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The importance of education for the reallocation of labor: Evidence from Swedish linked employer-employee data 1986 - 2002

Gartell, Marie; Jans, Ann-Christin; Persson, Helena - 2007

Using employer-employee data covering the whole Swedish economy over a uniquely long time period from 1986 to 2002, we examine how job flows and worker flows have been distributed both on an aggregate level and across educational levels. We find that job and worker flows vary by educational...

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Income support systems, labour supply incentives and employment: Some cross-country evidence

Forslund, Anders; Fredriksson, Peter - 2009

objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …

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Innovation and performance in manufacturing industries: A comparison of the Nordic countries

Lööf, Hans; Heshmati, Almas; Asplund, Rita; Nåås, … - 2001

The availability of new internationally-harmonized innovation survey data collected from OECD countries has created … some interesting opportunities for studying the following two key areas: (1) the determinants of innovation behavior at … firm level, and (2) innovation as an important factor contributing to the economic growth. This paper looks at the …

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The duration of paid parental leave and cildren's scholastic performance

Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009

parental earnings or fathers' education, or relative to other predictors of child perforÿmance. We find no effects on …' mental health. Overall the results suggest positive causal interaction effects between mothers' education and the amount of … between matÿernal education and school outcomes. …

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Does a pint day affect your childs pay? The effect of prenatal alcohol exposure on adult outcomes

Nilsson, J. Peter - 2008

This paper utilizes a Swedish alcohol policy experiment conducted in the late 1960s to identify the impact of prenatal alcohol exposure on educational attainments and labor market outcomes. The experiment started in November 1967 and was prematurely discontinued in July 1968 due to a sharp...

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Trading off or having it all? Completed fertility and mid-career earnings of Swedish men and women

Boschini, Anne; Håkanson, Christina; Rosén, Åsa; … - 2011

have changed for Swedish men and women born 1945-1962 by documenting changes in education, assortative mating patterns …-professionals, and there appears to be a convergence in the life-choices of women across education groups. Despite these different …

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Do hedonic price indexes change history? The case of electrification

Edquist, Harald - 2005

Rapid price decreases for ICT-products in the 1990s have been largely attributed to the introduction of hedonic price indexes. Would hedonic price indexing also have large effects on measured price and productivity during earlier technological breakthroughs? This paper investigates the impact of...

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Income Inequality and Growth: A Panel Study of Swedish Counties 1960-2000

Nahum, Ruth-Aïda - 2005

This paper explores the relationship between income inequality and growth using panel data on Swedish counties from 1960-2000. Compared to standard methods of estimating this relationship yearly regional level data are used, and inequality is allowed to be endogenous. We find a significant...

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