About IFN

Funding

The Research Institute of Industrial Economics obtains about 30 percent of its financing from the principal, the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise.

Moreover, research funding is also obtained from:

 

Almega

The trade association Almega contributes with financing of research on the service sector at the institute.

 

Catarina and Sven Hagströmer's Foundation 

The financing is directed towards research on the specific matters which may occur in the interface between private and public production and the financing of core services in the fields of welfare and education.

 

From Welfare State to Welfare Society

IFN and SNS have started a joint project to study how the Swedish system for the production of welfare services can be improved. The financiers are currently AFA Försäkring, Attendo, Axcel, Bräcke Diakoni, Diaverum, IK Investment Partners, Investor, Katrineholms kommun, Nordic Healthcare Group, Praktikertjänst, SKL, Stockholms läns landsting, Sven och Dagmar Saléns stiftelse, Svensk Försäkring, Tillväxtverket, Täby kommun, Valedo Partners and VINNOVA.

 

NASDAQ OMX Nordic Foundation

The overall purpose is to promote scientific research and other initiatives of the financial markets in Finland, Denmark and Sweden and in the future also other financial markets covered by the NASDAQ OMX corporate group’s activities, providing impetus for increased competence and competitiveness for these financial markets.

 

Swedish Competition Authority

The Swedish Competition Authority promotes research on competition issues, mainly within the areas of economics and law, with support from the Council for Competition Research.

 

Swedish Energy Agency

The Swedish Energy Agency operates in various sectors of society to create conditions for an efficient and sustainable energy use and a cost-effective Swedish energy supply.

 

Swedish Research Council (VR)

The Swedish Research Council is an authority that develops and finances basic research and information about research of the highest quality in all scientific areas.

 

Taxes and Entrepreneurship

The purpose of the project is to study the effects of corporate taxation and taxation of stock holdings on firm behavior, ownership structure and business performance. The financiers are Mellby Gård AB, L E Lundbergföretagen AB, Carl Bennet AB, Mexab Holding AB and Stena AB. 

 

The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation (RJ)

The foundation is an independent foundation with the aim of promoting and supporting scientific research.

 

The Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation

The goal of the foundation is to support research within the social sciences, mainly in economic history, economic geography, business administration, economics and econometrics.

 

The Karl-Adam Bonnier Foundation

The aim of this project is to study how the single company or the entrepreneur is affected by the jurisdiction (taxes, regulations etc.). The main focus is on business economics and legal aspects of enterprise and entrepreneurship.

 

The Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation

The purpose of the foundation is to support care and fostering of children, support education and learning and support scientific research.

 

The Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation

The purpose of the foundation is to support scientific education or research, to support Swedish youth education, and to support care of needy elderly, sick or disabled Swedish citizens.

 

The Ragnar Söderberg Foundation

The aim of the Ragnar Söderberg Foundation is to promote scientific research and scientific education or educational work, especially in the areas of economics, medicine and legal sciences.

 

The Swedish Retail and Wholesale Development Council 

The Swedish Retail and Wholesale Development Council is one of Sweden’s largest financiers of research in the area of wholesale and retail. The main purpose it to develop and strengthening the academic retail and wholesale research. The aim is also to increase the knowledge of wholesale and retail, for the benefit of companies, employees, customers and society.

 

The Torsten Söderberg Foundation

The aim of the Torsten Söderberg Foundation is to promote scientific research and scientific education or educational work, especially in the areas of economics, medicine and legal sciences.

 

VINNOVA

VINNOVA, Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems, is Sweden’s innovation agency. Their aim is to increase the competitiveness of Swedish researchers and companies.

 

Institutional Entrepreneurship

Most recent book

Editors: Magnus Henrekson and Tino Sanandaji

 

This comprehensive volume builds on Baumol’s 1990 framework to categorize and classify the growing research field that explores the interplay between institutions and entrepreneurship.

It also contains the unique feature of examining the ways in which entrepreneurs themselves shape institutions.

International cooperation

Visiting researchers

Collaborating with others is essential for IFN as a research institute. Our researchers co-author articles with colleagues from other institutes, and many also teach at various universities and colleges.

As part of our extensive program of guest researchers, leading international researchers visit the institute. The visitors present and pursue their research as well as interact and cooperate with researchers at IFN.

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Global Award

Research on entrepreneurship

 

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The Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research has become firmly established as the foremost global award for research on entrepreneurship.This Prize is awarded annually with a prize sum of EUR 100,000.

IFN in cooperation with Entreprenörskapsforum and VINNOVA are the principals of the award.

Professor Maryann Feldman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the 2013 winner of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research.

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