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Public policy is currently shifting from SME policy towards entrepreneurship policy, which supports entrepreneurship without directing attention to quantitative goals and specific firms or employment groups. The institutional framework set by public policy affects the prevalence and performance...
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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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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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Entrepreneurship policy mainly aims to promote innovative “Schumpeterian” entrepreneurship. However, the rate of entrepreneurship is commonly proxied using quantity-based metrics, such as small business activity, the self-employment rate or the number of startups. We argue that those metrics...
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specialists in the area and with deep knowledge of the pertinent institutions in Sweden and the US. These two countries have been …
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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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for growth. To secure industrial dynamics and growth in the long term, institutions must be designed both to encourage …
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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 stifled by existing institutions during times …
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