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• Entrepreneurial Experimentation: A Key Function in Systems of Innovation

  Small Business Economics

  The literature on innovation systems focuses on the supply side (the creation of technology) rather than on how innovations are converted into economic activity and growth via the market (the demand side, and the interface between supply and demand). One implication of this is that there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation systems and economic growth. The purpose of this paper…

  Published articles in English

  by Åsa Lindholm-Dahlstrand, Martin Andersson and Bo Carlsson

• Boyan Jovanovic: Recipient of the 2019 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research

  Small Business Economics

  Published articles in English

  by Maria Minniti, Martin Andersson, Pontus Braunerhjelm, Frédéric Delmar, Annika Rickne, Karin Thorburn, Karl Wennberg and Mikael Stenkula

• “Post-Truth” Schooling and Marketized Education: Explaining the Decline in Sweden’s School Quality

  Journal of Institutional Economics

  Published articles in English

  by Magnus Henrekson and Johan Wennström

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  Özge Öner awarded Young Researcher Award 2019

  2019-09-12

  On Thursday Özge Öner, IFN and the University of Cambridge, received the Young Researcher Award 2019 for "significant contributions to our understanding of entrepreneurship," explained the chairman of the prize committee Martin Andersson, professor at Blekinge Institute of Technology. The prize sum is SEK 150,000 and is given every year, alternately to a man and a woman, by the Entrepreneurship Forum. "We try to understand what the place means for the economy and for, among other things, entrepreneurship," Öner explained in her prize lecture.

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  Åsa Hansson: We need lower corporate taxes

  2019-09-04

  How do Swedish taxes compare to other OECD countries? This is the topic of a report published by SNS.
  Åsa Hansson, University of Lund and affiliated to IFN talked about the report at a seminar at SNS. Sweden, being a small country, needs to lower corporate taxes to be competitive on a global market, said Åsa Hansson.

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  Magnus Henrekson appointed to suggest boardmembers of Lund University

  2019-09-02

  Professor Magnus Henrekson, Managing director of IFN, has been appointed by the Government to propose who should be Chairman and further members of the Board of Lund University. He is one of two appointees that will give their suggestions for the operational period of May 2020 - April 2023. The other nominee is Maria Arnholm, former Minister of Gender Equality and the Liberals party secretary.

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  Per Skedinger to study minimum wages for the European Commission

  2019-08-30

  Per Skedinger, IFN and Associate Professor at Linnaeus University, School of Business and Economics, in Växjö, has been appointed by the European Commission and its program for Employment and Social Innovation ,EaSI, to conduct a case study on collectively agreed minimum wages in the Nordic countries. The objective of the study is to discuss the effects on wage structure and employment. The study will be comparing the Nordic countries to countries with a statutory national minimum wage.  The study will also be examining whether, and how, collectively agreed minimum wages could reduce in-work poverty, i. e poverty despite full-time employment.
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  Awarded for research on the importance of geography for entrepreneurship

  2019-08-29

  Özge Öner, IFN, and Cambridge University is awarded the Young Researcher Award 2019 (Unga forskarpriset 2019). She lectures on her research at a lunch seminar at the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum on September 12. Öner is awarded for her research on 1) the geographical aspects of entrepreneurship (especially in the retail and tourism sectors), 2) entrepreneurship (mainly among foreign-born) and 3) the importance of local institutions for the business environment.

   
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  From IFN to doctoral studies in Berlin

  2019-08-23

  In the summer of 2018, Hedda Nielsen started working as a research assistant at IFN. Now, a year later, she is leaving the institute to begin doctoral studies at the Berlin School of Economics & Humboldt University in Berlin. She explains that at IFN, she has gained insight into many different research areas and learned a lot about data processing.

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  ESO-report about digitalization by IFN-researcher

  2019-08-23

  A report about digitalization in health care by Mårten Blix, IFN, and Charlotta Levay, Lund University, was presented by the Expert Group on Public Economics (ESO) in Swedish in December 2018 and is now published in English. "New technology enables citizens to better monitor their health, take preventive measures, and, if necessary, take more control of their health situation" Blix and Levay argue. "Technology can thus enable more and better quality care, despite fewer physical care visits."

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  First academic seminar of the fall

  2019-08-12

  On Monday, the first academic brown bag seminar of the fall was held at IFN (research at an early stage).  Johanna Möllerström, George Mason University in Washington DC and affiliate of IFN,  presented the study "A Meritocratic Origin of Egalitarian Behavior." In experiments, the researchers have studied how people (in the US and Norway) believe that it is fair to redistribute income - depending on who is responsible for the best performance. And what does it mean when you do not know for sure whose performance is the best?

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