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Intangible Investment and the Swedish Manufacturing and Service Sector Paradox
Edquist, Harald - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011
Since the mid 1990s labor productivity growth in Sweden has been high compared to Japan, the US and the western EU-countries. While productivity growth has been rapid in manufacturing, it has been much slower in the service sector. Paradoxically, all employment growth since the mid 1990s has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008865948
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Globalization of R&D and China – Empirical Observations and Policy Implications
Lundin, Nannan; Schwaag Serger, Sylvia - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007
As one of the world’s largest recipients of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), China is emerging as a key global player in Research and Development (R&D). This rapid increase in R&D investment is mainly attributed to the effort of strengthening the indigenous innovation capacity of domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419496
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Incentives for Academic Entrepreneurship and Economic Performance: Sweden and the United States
Henrekson, Magnus; Rosenberg, Nathan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 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/10005419527
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An Innovation Policy Framework: Bridging the Gap between Industrial Dynamics and Growth
Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015
This paper examines policy measures that foster the creation of innovations with high inherent potential and that simultaneously provide the right incentives for individuals to create and expand firms that disseminate such innovations in the form of highly valued products. In so doing, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011118578
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The Role of Capital and Other Factors in the Formation and Growth of Firms Started by University Researchers
Olofsson, Christer; Wahlbin, Claes - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684487
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The Inventor’s Role: Was Schumpeter Right?
Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Svensson, Roger - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007
information and reduce uncertainty. This serves to expand the market opportunities for the entrepreneur. The empirical analysis is … show improved commercialization performance when the patent is licensed or sold to an entrepreneur, or if the inventor is … performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645420
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Incentives for Academic Entrepreneurship and Economic Performance: Sweden and the United States.
Henrekson, M.; Rosenberg, N. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 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/10005670110
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Firms' Choice of R&D Intensity in the Presence of Aggregate Increasing Returns to Scale
Fölster, Stefan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989
. However when costless communication is possible firms may be able to coordinate a move towards a pareto-preferred equilibrium … provided that the communication is credible. It is shown that in some cases when firms do not move to a pareto …-preferred equilibrium in spite of communication one firm may have an incentive to purchase R & D assets from other firms to reap the gain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818400
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Perspectives on the Success and Early History of the Industrial Institute for Economic and Social Research (IUI)
Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009
The Industrial Institute of Economic and Social Research (IUI) was founded in 1939. In less than ten years, IUI grew from a small survey bureau to a leading research institute focused on microeconomic research relevant to industrial development. Based on a number of new commemorative essays and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543205
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Does Hedonic Price Indexing Change Our Interpretation of Economic History? Evidence from Swedish Electrification
Edquist, Harald - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
Rapid price decreases for ICT-products in the 1990s have been largely attributed to the introduction of hedonic price indexes. Would hedonic price indexing also have large effects on measured price and productivity during other technological breakthroughs? This paper investigates the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082490