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Incentives for Academic Entrepreneurship and Economic Performance: Sweden and the United States
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334855
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An Innovation Policy Framework: Bridging the Gap between Industrial Dynamics and Growth
Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Henrekson, Magnus - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010504476
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281236
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Demand vs. supply driven innovations: US and Swedish experiences in academic entrepreneurship
Goldfarb, Brent; Henrekson, Magnus; Rosenberg, Nathan - 2001
Measured by per-capita publication measures, Sweden is an academic powerhouse. Hence, its inability to commercialize on these accomplishments is a puzzle. This paper attributes this failure to the top-down nature of Swedish policies aimed at commercializing these innovations as well as an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281346
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281352
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How labor market institutions affect job creation and productivity growth
Henrekson, Magnus - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
Economic growth requires factor reallocation across firms and continuous replacement of technologies. Labor market institutions influence economic dynamism by their impact on the supply of a key factor, skilled workers to new and expanding firms, and the shedding of workers from declining and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404856
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Product market reforms and incentives to innovate in Sweden
Edquist, Harald; Henrekson, Magnus - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335613
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Entrepreneurship, innovation and the good life: Reflections on Edmund Phelps' mass flourishing
Henrekson, Magnus - 2014
Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change (Princeton University Press, 2013). The book is … laudable for its emphasis on innovation, for its discussion of what constitutes a good life, and Phelps' realization that true … the lack of empirical indicators actually showing that the rate of innovation has dropped are significant weaknesses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335638
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Status quo institutions and the benefits of institutional deviations
Elert, Niklas; Henrekson, Magnus - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917020
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Institutional reform for innovation and entrepreneurship: An agenda for Europe
Elert, Niklas; Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - 2017
It is imperative that the economies of the European Union become more entrepreneurial to promote innovation and … to promote entrepreneurship, innovation and growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917026