Unleashing Society’s Innovative Capacity: An Integrated Policy Framework

di Pontus Braunerhjelm (Autore)

Magnus Henrekson (Autore)

Springer International Publishing AG, 2023

This is an open access book. Europe faces significant challenges in the coming decades: geopolitical, demographic, technological, increased competition, climate-related, and health issues due to an aging population, to mention a few. Given these challenges, technological progress and new ways of handling complex issues will be key to continued prosperity and growth. To accomplish a growth process driven by innovation and entrepreneurship, the institutional environment must take into account a multitude of different policy areas that interact to either strengthen or weaken an economy's innovative potential. Innovation is not only about R&D and higher education but is also intimately related to entrepreneurship. Similarly, entrepreneurship is not only about low start-up costs and favorable tax rates. Hence, a consistent and coordinated policy environment conducive to innovation and entrepreneurship is required to translate innovation into high-growth firms and macro-level growth. This book presents the basic cornerstones required to provide a policy regime that can nurture such dynamics. The authors draw extensively on empirical analysis of the development of the Swedish economy, which has been transformed from a so-called "sclerosis" state in the 1980s until the early 1990s to an economy characterized by successful entrepreneurship and innovation. This transformation resulted from a reform agenda that has been gradually rolled out, beginning in the mid-1980s. The authors argue that the Swedish experience provides useful lessons for other nations as well.

• Autore: Pontus Braunerhjelm, Magnus Henrekson
• Editore: Springer International Publishing AG
• Collana: International Studies in Entrepreneurship
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 184 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• Peso: 483 gr.
• EAN: 9783031427558

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