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- Avdeitchikova, Sofia, et al.
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Access to Informal Venture Capital and Ambitious Entrepreneurship - Cross Country Evidence
- 2016
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Ingår i: International Review of Entrepreneurship. - 2009-2822. ; 14:4, s. 469-482
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Many empirical studies have emphasized the importance of institutional venture capital for enabling high growth entrepreneurship and innovation. Yet, there are reasons to believe that provision of informal venture capital will have as significant, if not more significant effect on entrepreneurship. Based on Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data for 33 countries for the years 2001-2010, we study the relationship between the presence of informal investors in a country and the levels of general and ambitious entrepreneurship, defined as entrepreneurs that have intentions to grow their business, internationalize and/or innovate. Some of the main findings are that the overall level of access to informal venture capital is positively related to general entrepreneurship and ambitious entrepreneurship in terms of innovativeness, while access to arms-length money (i.e. informal investments made by work colleagues or strangers) appears to be positively related to ambitious entrepreneurship in terms of job growth expectations. The relationship between availability of arms-length money and the innovativeness of the entrepreneurial activities appears however to be negative.
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- Halvarsson, Daniel
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Firm Dynamics : The Size and Growth Distribution of Firms
- 2013
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis is about firm dynamics, and relates to the size and growth-rate distribution of firms. As such, it consists of an introductory and four separate chapters. The first chapter concerns the size distribution of firms, the two subsequent chapters deal more specically with high-growth firms (HGFs), and the last chapter covers a related topic in distributional estimation theory. The first three chapters are empirically oriented, whereas the fourth chapter develops a statistical concept.
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- Karlsson, Charlie, 1945-, et al.
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Exit and Entry over the Product Life Cycle : Evidence from the Swedish Manufacturing Industry
- 2003
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Ingår i: Small Business Economics. - : Springer-Verlag New York. - 0921-898X .- 1573-0913. ; 21:2, s. 135-144
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper the process of exit and entry of firms in the Swedish manufacturing industry is investigated within the framework of the product life cycle. The product life cycle theory explains how the high degree of uncertainty, as regards product designs and production methods, which is connected to the early stages of the product life cycle requires a high level of knowledge-intensity. Since uncertainty decrease over the product life cycle, less knowledge is needed in production during later stages of the product life cycle. This implies that knowledge-intensity differs for firms that exit and enter in different stages of the product life cycle. Four hypotheses regarding these relationships are stated and empirically tested in this paper, using data at the 5-digit SIC-level for the Swedish manufacturing industry during 1990–1996. The empirical results show that entrants in the early stages of the product life cycle are more knowledge-intensive than incumbent firms. It is also found that firms exiting in early stages of the product life cycle are more knowledge-intensive than firms exiting in later stages.
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- Karlsson, Charlie, 1945-, et al.
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Knowledge Accessibility and New Firm Formation
- 2011. - 1
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Ingår i: New Directions in Regional Economic Development. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781848444218 - 9780857933515 ; , s. 174-197
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Karlsson, Charlie, et al.
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Knowledge Accessiblity and New Firm Formation
- 2009
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Ingår i: New Directions in Regional Economic Development. - : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781848444218 ; , s. 174-191
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Källner, Emelie, et al.
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Entrepreneurial Motivation and Idea Generation by Displaced Employees
- 2018
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Ingår i: International Review of Entrepreneurship. - : Senate Hall Academic Publishing. - 2009-2822. ; 16:3, s. 383-404
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper studies the entrepreneurial motivation and idea generation process of displaced employees. The empirical results are based on both quantitative (survey) and qualitative (interviews) data collected from displaced employees who decided to become entrepreneurs after the closure of R&D facilities of the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca in Lund (2010) and Sodertalje (2012), Sweden. The empirical findings show that the previous experience and expertise gained from AstraZeneca greatly influenced the idea generation process. Although the employees were affected by their job displacement, still 70 percent of the entrepreneurial activities could be regarded as opportunity-based, suggesting that many entrepreneurs are driven by a combination of push and pull motives. With regard to the timing of the idea generation process, about one third of the entrepreneurs came up with their business ideas before learning about the facility closures. Hence, in many cases, being affected by the displacement spurred the launch of ideas that already existed.
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- Lougui, Monia, et al.
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What obstacles do entrepreneurs encounter?
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy. - 2045-2101 .- 2045-211X. ; 3:2, s. 275-291
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
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- Nyström, Kristina
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Business regulation and red tape in the entrepreneurial economy
- 2009
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Ingår i: The Geography of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. - : Trollhättan : Department of Economics and IT, University West, 2009. - 9789163355714 ; , s. 847-860
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Nyström, Kristina
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Business regulation and red tape in the entrepreneurial economy
- 2010
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper discusses the interrelationship between business regulations and entrepreneurial activities. Most empirical studies find that business regulations have a negative effect on the amount of entrepreneurial activities in an economy. In addition, we argue that the regulatory quality and amount of business regulation may also be influenced by the amount of entrepreneurial activities in the society since policymakers and bureaucrats tend to respond to changing conditions in the society. In the empirical part of the paper, data for 23 OECD countries for the period 1972-2002 in order to elaborate on the interrelationship between entrepreneurship and the quality of business regulations. The empirical findings indicate that there is a positive relationship between entrepreneurship, and the quality of business regulations.
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