Lööf, Hans; Nabavi, Pardis; Bazzazian, Navid - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012
This paper analyzes how different innovation-strategies of incumbent firms affect the quality of their entrepreneurial … spawns. Using a novel data set that combines employer-employee micro data from Sweden with firm level patent application data … files for the period 1997-2008, three types of incumbent firms are distinguished: firms that are engaged in innovation …