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- Abrahamsson, Jan, 1981-, et al.
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Continuing corporate growth and inter-organizational collaboration of international new ventures in Sweden
- 2015
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Ingår i: Innovation and entrepreneurship in the global economy. - : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781783477319 ; , s. 89-116
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this study we examine the scope and pattern of innovation cooperation of international new ventures (INVs) of different age, size and formation type. Using longitudinal micro-matched database and Swedish Community Innovation Survey results for the years 1998–2009, we show that INVs are more likely to be involved in international cooperation than other firms, and that INVs are also more likely to have a broader scope of international partnerships in terms of number of partners and geographic location of these partners. We further show how age of a firm that originated as an INV and its formation type – greenfield, spin-off or merger – affect patterns of international cooperation for innovation.
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- Andersson, Martin
(författare)
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Start-up rates, entrepreneurship culture and the business cycle : Swedish patterns from national and regional data
- 2015
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Ingår i: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Global Economy. - Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781783477319 - 9781783477326 ; , s. 162-183
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- It is often claimed that there are locally embedded values and attitudes towards entrepreneurship, exerting a strong influence on the rate and level of entrepreneurial activity in regions. The concept of regional entrepreneurship culture aims to capture such phenomena, and refers in a general sense to the level of social acceptance and encouragement of entrepreneurs and their activities in a region. This chapter discusses regional entrepreneurship culture as a source of persistent differences in regional rates of new firm formation, and presents a number of empirical regularities for Sweden to illustrate the empirical relevance of the main arguments. Using data on rates of new firm formation across Swedish regions over time, the chapter further explores the association between start-up activity and the business cycle, as well as how the geographic distribution of start-up rates changes during a major economic crisis.
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- Broström, Anders, et al.
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Universities and Public Research Institutes as Collaboration Partners for Firms
- 2015
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Ingår i: Karlsson, C. (2015). Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Global Economy: Knowledge, Technology and Internationalization. [edited by] Charlie Karlsson, Urban Grasjo, Sofia Wixe.. - Cheltenham, U.K. : Edward Elgar Publishers. - 9781783477319
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter explores why firms collaborate with different different types of organizations. The chapter thus explores the similarities and differences between firms collaborating with universities and with public research institutes. The chapter is based upon empirical data from a survey in Sweden.
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- George, Nerine Mary, et al.
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Technological Advancement through Imitation by Industry Incumbents in Strategic Alliances
- 2015
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Ingår i: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Global Economy. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781783477319 ; , s. 65-88
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Contrary to the conventional wisdom, this study demonstrates that technological laggards and not industry front-runners are most likely to experience high rates of technological advancement in strategic alliances. We further suggest that imitation and not innovation is the primary source of such advancement based on the fact that technological progress by laggards is most visible in industries that lack strong appropriability regimes. Finally, we present empirical evidence suggesting that lagging established corporations prefer to imitate from startups and not from fellow-incumbents. These results are derived from a careful analysis of a longitudinal sample of over 150 incumbents with varying degree of technological prowess who engage in partnerships with both startups and fellow-incumbents across a wide representation of industries. Our paper contributes to technological innovation, strategic alliance, entrepreneurship, and imitation literatures and provides non-trivial implications for startups.
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- Karlsson, Charlie, 1945-, et al.
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Preface
- 2015
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Ingår i: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Global Economy. - : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781783477319 ; , s. ix-x
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Svensson, Martin
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When being wrong might be right: on overconfidence as an evolutionary mechanism of nascent entrepreneurs
- 2015
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Ingår i: <em>Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Global Economy: Knowledge, Technology and Internationalization</em>. - : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781783477319 ; , s. 237-258
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Empirical regularities regarding start-ups that do not show prolonged longevity have been known for some time. In this chapter, the regularity is argued to originate from an interaction between cognition-laden characteristics of entrepreneurs and contextual conditions. Overconfidence is argued to cause miscalibration of objective probabilities of success, which in turn causes excess entry, but also to negatively affect survival rates. Moreover, overconfidence is argued to be an evolutionary mechanism that helps explain the distribution of entrepreneurs at the local level. It does so by advocating overconfident entrepreneurs to be more likely to beacon personal, but miscalibrated, beliefs to others and thereby set off spillover effects. The bias is therefore argued to be detrimental to actors at an individual level (as it negatively affects survival rates), but favorable at the system level (as it facilitates spillover effects). The concluding discussion of these matters is extended by a discussion of policy issues.
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