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Martin Andersson

Department of Industrial Economics, Blekinge Institute of Technology

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SE- 37179

Karlskrona, blekinge 371 79

Sweden

Örebro University - Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum

Södra Kungstornet

Kungsgatan 33, 7tr

Stockholm, 11156

Sweden

Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)

Box 55665

Grevgatan 34, 2nd floor

Stockholm, SE-102 15

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CIRCLE, Lund University

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Box 117

Lund, SC Skane S221 00

Sweden

  • Department of Industrial Economics, Blekinge Institute of Technology

  • Örebro University - Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum

  • Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)

  • CIRCLE, Lund University

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (13)

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1.

Local Competitiveness Fostered Through Local Institutions for Entrepreneurship

IFN Working Paper No. 1020
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 04 May 2014 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2015
Martin Andersson and Magnus Henrekson
Department of Industrial Economics, Blekinge Institute of Technology and Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
Downloads 201 (378,726)
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Business climate, Entrepreneurship, Institutions, Job creation, Local policies, Startups, Regulations, Entrepreneurship culture

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Agglomeration and Productivity: Evidence from Firm-Level Data

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 09 Aug 2011
Martin Andersson and Hans Lööf
Department of Industrial Economics, Blekinge Institute of Technology and Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Downloads 180 (420,133)
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productivity, agglomeration economies, spatial externalities, external scale conomies, urban increasing returns, spatial selection, spatial sorting

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The Geography of Swedish SMEs’ Investments: Financial Constraints Across the Urban-Rural Hierarchy in a Wealthy Country With Low Regional Disparities

OECD Regional Development Working Papers 2020/06 https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/urban-rural-and-regional-development/the-geography-of-swedish-smes-investments_a51319fe-en
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 06 Jan 2021
Martin Andersson, Johan Eklund and Alexandra Tsvetkova
Department of Industrial Economics, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Örebro University - Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum and Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)
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Financial Constraints, SMEs, Urban-Rural Continuum, Investment Decisions, Access To Finance

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Entrepreneurial Experimentation: A Key Function in Entrepreneurial Systems of Innovation

IFN Working Paper No. 1154, 2017
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 19 Oct 2020
Martin Andersson
Department of Industrial Economics, Blekinge Institute of Technology
Downloads 61 (951,658)

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entrepreneurship, experimentation, innovation systems, new technology-based firms, entrepreneurial systems of innovation, scaling up, growth

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Local Rates of New Firm Formation: An Empirical Exploration Using Swedish Data

IFN Working Paper No. 1290
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 19 Oct 2020
Martin Andersson
Department of Industrial Economics, Blekinge Institute of Technology
Downloads 60 (961,006)
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entrepreneurship, new firm formation, geography, human capital, agglomeration, local growth, startups

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The Economic Microgeography of Diversity and Specialization

IFN Working Paper No. 1167, 2017
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 19 Oct 2020
Martin Andersson
Department of Industrial Economics, Blekinge Institute of Technology
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productivity, diversity, specialization, externalities, knowledge spillovers, attenuation, agglomeration economies, geo-coding

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Software Development and Innovation – Exploring the Software Shift in Innovation in Swedish Firms

IFN Working Paper No. 1347
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 19 Oct 2020
Martin Andersson
Department of Industrial Economics, Blekinge Institute of Technology
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innovation, software, software development, digitalization, human capital, software bias, digital technology, absorptive capacity

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Ethnic Enclaves and Self-employment among Middle Eastern Immigrants in Sweden – Ethnic Capital or Enclave Size?

IFN Working Paper No. 1195
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 20 Oct 2020
Martin Andersson, Johan Larsson and Ozge Oner
Department of Industrial Economics, Blekinge Institute of Technology, University of Cambridge - Department of Land Economy and University of Cambridge, Department of Land Economy
Downloads 50 (1,063,489)
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Ethnic enclave, segregation, immigrant entrepreneurship, self-employment, labor market sorting, integration

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Mysteries of the Trade? Skill-Specific Local Agglomeration Economies

IFN Working Paper No. 1352
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 20 Oct 2020
Martin Andersson and Johan Larsson
Department of Industrial Economics, Blekinge Institute of Technology and University of Cambridge - Department of Land Economy
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Agglomeration economies, Wages, Spillovers, Attenuation, Clusters, Economic proximity, Relatedness

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Human Capital Sorting: The ‘When’ and ‘Who’ of Sorting of Talents to Urban Regions

IFN Working Paper No. 1155 (2017)
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 19 Oct 2020
Martin Andersson
Department of Industrial Economics, Blekinge Institute of Technology
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human capital, university graduates, spatial sorting, migration, labor mobility, ability, geography of talent, spatial selection

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Filling the Gap or Drifting Apart?,how digital maturity of firms shapes perceived competence needs

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 16 Feb 2026
Martin Andersson, Anna KUSETOGULLARI and Tony Gorschek
Department of Industrial Economics, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Blekinge Institute of Technology and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Digital Competence, AI, Human capital, Innovation, Absorptive Capacity, skills policy

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MNEs and startup growth.Do good firms breed good startups?

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 09 May 2026
Martin Andersson, Davide Castellani, Claudio Fassio, Viroj Jienwatcharamongkhol and Riccardo Marzano
Department of Industrial Economics, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Henley Business School, University of Pisa, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Sapienza University of Rome - Department of Earth Sciences and Forecasting Research Center, Prevention and Control of Geological Risks
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startups, firm growth, workers mobility, employer-employee, multinational enterprises, Sweden

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Product Variety and the Magnitude and Geographical Scope of Firms’ Exports: An Empirical Analysis

The IUP Journal of Applied Economics, Vol. XI, No. 1, pp. 5-28, January 2012
Posted: 13 Sep 2012
Martin Andersson
Department of Industrial Economics, Blekinge Institute of Technology

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