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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Magnus Henrekson is affiliated with the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Sweden. Their research spans several areas within business, management, economics, and finance, with a focus on entrepreneurship, innovation, and industrial economics.

The main fields of study covered by Henrekson include Business, Management and Accounting, and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. More specifically, their work engages with subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Accounting, Strategy and Management, and Business and International Management.

The topics frequently addressed in their publications involve Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Innovation Policy and R&D, Economic Growth and Productivity, Innovation and Knowledge Management, Innovation and Socioeconomic Development, and Regional Development and Policy.

Henrekson has published in various reputable academic venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Small Business Economics
  • The Review of Austrian Economics
  • Foundations and Trends® in Entrepreneurship
  • Scandinavian Economic History Review

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Henrekson are:

  • The rise and decline of industrial foundations as controlling owners of Swedish listed firms: the role of tax incentives (2020), Scandinavian Economic History Review
  • To Be or Not to Be: The Entrepreneur in Neo-Schumpeterian Growth Theory (2022), SSRN Electronic Journal

Henrekson also co-authored papers with frequent collaborators, including Mikael Stenkula, Niklas Elert, Dan Johansson, Pontus Braunerhjelm, and Ivo Zander.

In addition to journal articles, Henrekson has contributed to book publications from Springer International Publishing and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Notable books include:

  • Moonshots and the New Industrial Policy (2024), Springer International Publishing
  • Unleashing Society's Innovative Capacity (2023), Springer International Publishing
  • Innovative Entrepreneurship as a Collaborative Effort: An Institutional Framework (2020), Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Best Publications

  • Gazelles as job creators: a survey and interpretation of the evidence

    Magnus Henrekson;Dan Johansson

  • Growth Effects of Government Expenditure and Taxation in Rich Countries

    Stefan Fölster;Magnus Henrekson

  • Testing the Female Underperformance Hypothesis

    Anita Du Rietz;Magnus Henrekson

  • Bottom-up versus top-down policies towards the commercialization of university intellectual property

    Brent Goldfarb;Magnus Henrekson

  • Determinants of the Prevalence of Start-ups and High-Growth Firms

    Per Davidsson;Magnus Henrekson

  • A new framework for testing the effect of government spending on growth and productivity

    Pär Hansson;Magnus Henrekson

  • Entrepreneurship: A Weak Link in the Welfare State

    Magnus Henrekson

  • Growth and the public sector: a critique of the critics

    Stefan Fölster;Magnus Henrekson

  • Designing Efficient Institutions for Science-Based Entrepreneurship: Lesson from the US and Sweden

    Magnus Henrekson;Nathan Rosenberg

  • Growth Effects of European Integration

    Magnus Henrekson;Johan Torstensson;Johan Torstensson;Rasha Torstensson

  • The Swedish Experiment

    Anders Bjork;Nils Elvander;Ulf Jakobsson;Magnus Henrekson

  • The Effects on Sick Leave of Changes in the Sickness Insurance System

    Magnus Henrekson;Mats Persson

  • Small business activity does not measure entrepreneurship

    Magnus Henrekson;Tino Sanandaji

  • Wagner's Law--A Spurious Relationship?

    Magnus Henrekson

  • GOVERNMENT SIZE AND GROWTH: A SURVEY AND INTERPRETATION OF THE EVIDENCE

    Andreas Bergh;Magnus Henrekson

  • Entrepreneurship and Institutions

    Magnus Henrekson

  • Tax Effects on Work Activity, Industry Mix and Shadow Economy Size: Evidence from Rich-Country Comparisons

    Steven J. Davis;Magnus Henrekson

  • Competencies and Institutions Fostering High-growth Firms

    Magnus Henrekson;Dan Johansson

  • The Interaction of Entrepreneurship and Institutions

    Magnus Henrekson;Tino Sanandaji

  • Explaining National Differences in the Size and Industry Distribution of Employment

    Steven J. Davis;Magnus Henrekson

  • Growth Effects of Government Expenditure and Taxation in Rich Countries

    Stefan Foelster;Magnus Henrekson

  • Growth and the Public Sector: A Critique of the Critics

    Stefan Foelster;Magnus Henrekson

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven J. Davis
Steven J. Davis Hoover Institution
Pontus Braunerhjelm
Pontus Braunerhjelm Royal Institute of Technology
Nathan Rosenberg
Nathan Rosenberg University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Per Davidsson
Per Davidsson Jönköping University
Martin Ingvar
Martin Ingvar Karolinska Institute
Steven J. Davis
Steven J. Davis Stanford University
Anna Dreber
Anna Dreber Stockholm School of Economics
Luca Grilli
Luca Grilli Polytechnic University of Milan
Mancur Olson
Mancur Olson University of Maryland, College Park
Lars E.O. Svensson
Lars E.O. Svensson Stockholm School of Economics

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