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Purpose – Schumpeter claimed the entrepreneur to be instrumental for creative destruction and industrial dynamics. Entrepreneurial entry serves to transform and revitalize industries, thereby enhancing their competitiveness. The purpose of this paper is to investigate if entry of new firms...
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In this paper, we analyze the relationship between knowledge accessibility and regional economic growth in Sweden. The …
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The paper studies innovative performance of 130 Swedish corporations for 1993-94, using number of patents per corporation as a function of internal and external knowledge sources to the corporation. A coherent way of handling accessibility measures, within and between corporations located across...
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R&D in Sweden using an accessibility approach. After an extensive literature survey, we develop a simple theoretical … and municipalities. We show that the location of industry R&D in Sweden can be partly explained by the intra …
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This paper attempts to explain knowledge production in Swedish functional regions as measured by the number of patent applications. Recognizing that technological opportunity differs across sectors, a sectoral analysis is conducted. The Knowledge Production Function (KPF) approach is applied in...
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We analyze the rate of formation, the characteristics, and the performance of different types of new firms in Sweden … over a decade. Comparisons to Denmark, Brazil, and the U.S. suggest that the environment for new firm formation in Sweden …
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employment in Sweden. The contribution is empirical and builds on an analysis of spatial units of exactly the same size in terms … of geographic surface. The data divide Sweden into areas of one square kilometer, and describe each area in terms of …
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We analyze the rate of formation, the characteristics, and the performance of different types of new firms in Sweden … over a decade. Comparisons to Denmark, Brazil, and the U.S. suggest that the environment for new firm formation in Sweden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010616678
This paper studies the innovative performance of 130 Swedish corporations during 1993-94. The number of patents per corporation is explained as a function of the accessibility to internal and external knowledge sources of each corporation. A coherent way of handling accessibility measures,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764063