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The challenges of combatting climate change are unprecedented and now very urgent. Current approaches are not working fast enough. This paper, and this journal issue, conceive of the challenge as one of non-marginal structural and institutional change. Several different conceptual frameworks and pluralist theories are considered, emanating from complexity theory, economics, natural sciences, political economy, and strategy. These are deployed to identify potential accelerators, including synergies between climate action and other key political issues, and beneficial non-linear dynamics such as shifts in consumer preferences and technology learning curves. The delays in action also mean that removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is now necessary, and even unconventional geoengineering approaches may need to be considered. A pluralist and practical approach to climate action, accounting for different institutional and social contexts across countries, is argued to be required to accelerate action., QC 20240112

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This comprehensive Handbook presents thoughtful analysis on how regulations can impact innovation within a number of fields and markets, and provides a greater understanding of regulatory complexity and the challenging task it presents for future research. The Handbook of Innovation and Regulation embraces some of the key policy areas such as the regulation of markets, critical sectors, and global and regional aspects, focussing particularly on those regulations which target innovation. Reviewing these often interconnected policy areas in terms of both macroeconomic and microeconomic issues, this Handbook expertly studies how regulations in differing fields can affect innovative activities. By placing innovation centre stage, the contributors emphasise the direct and indirect effects of imposed regulations. Further, they illustrate the critically important overall impact of innovation to make firms competitive, promote economic growth and increase societal welfare. Addressing research and policy challenges, this Handbook would be an excellent resource for academics in regulatory economics, innovation and entrepreneurship, international trade, regional economics as well as environment and digitisation and policymakers in both national and international organisations., QC 20240522Part of ISBN 978-180088447-2, 978-180088446-5

Vi introducerar en ny produktionsfaktor baserat på anställdas tidigare erfarenheter som entreprenörer (EHC) för samtliga svenska aktiebolag under perioden2009–18. Det kan jämföras med andra humankapitalmått som utbildning ellerarbetslivserfarenhet. Därefter analyseras empiriskt sambandet mellan EHCoch produktivitet på företagsnivå samtidigt som vi tar hänsyn till ett stort antalindivid- och företagsspecifika faktorer. Resultaten visar att EHC har en starkpositiv effekt på företagens produktivitet oavsett vilka kontrollvariabler somadderas, skattningsmetod eller alternativa EHC-mått. Det bidrar till att förståskillnaderna i företagens produktivitet och är relevant för såväl företagare sombeslutsfattare inom politiken, tex vad gäller rörlighet på arbetsmarknaden., Artikeln baseras på en artikel som publicerats i Research Policy, mars 2023