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Entrepreneurship, institutuions and economic dynamism : lessons from a comparison of the United States and Sweden
Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Henrekson, Magnus - 2012
, 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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An innovation policy framework : bridging the gap between industrial dynamics and growth
Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Henrekson, Magnus - 2015
for growth. To secure industrial dynamics and growth in the long term, institutions must be designed both to encourage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472522
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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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Institutional reform for innovation and entrepreneurship: An agenda for Europe
Elert, Niklas; Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - 2017
) informal institutions. Overall, the proposed institutional changes move in a liberalizing direction; however, one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917026
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Taxation of Swedish firm owners: The great reversal from the 1970s to the 2010s
Henrekson, Magnus - 2017
By the late 1960s, real effective taxation of income from individual firm owner-ship in Sweden approached 100 percent. A series of tax reforms initiated in the late 1970s reversed this situation. This paper has a threefold purpose: (1) to elucidate the thinking behind the vision of creating a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917040
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Stock option taxation: A missing piece in European innovation policy?
Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - 2017
countries have rates of VC activity commensurable to their deep finan-cial markets, strong legal institutions and high R …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917044
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Schumpeterian entrepreneurship in Europe compared to other industrialized regions
Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - 2017
We examine whether Europe has an "entrepreneurship deficit" compared to other industrialized regions. Cross-country comparisons are difficult due to the lack of standard empirical definitions of entrepreneurship. Measures focusing on small business activity and startup rates suggest that Europe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917046
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Financial and institutional reforms for an entrepreneurial society
Economidou, Claire; Grilli, Luca; Henrekson, Magnus; … - 2018
ventures. That is followed by three papers that focus on the institutions that (fail to) channel financial resources to such … ventures and two papers that analyze the relevance of labor market institutions. The special issue concludes with two papers … investigating how the interplay of institutions and productive entrepreneurship results in economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917079
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The collaborative innovation bloc: A new mission for Austrian economics
Elert, Niklas; Henrekson, Magnus - 2018
We argue that scholars in the Austrian tradition of economics should incorporate the notion of a collaborative innovation bloc into their study of spontaneous market order. We demonstrate how successful entrepreneurship depends on an innovation bloc of this kind, a system of innovation that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917098
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Bottom-up policies trump top-down missions
Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - 2023
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014542162