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Europe needs accelerationist entrepreneurship

Samuele Murtinu — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 04:58:54 +0000

Let’s think about how quickly the corporate world has transformed in the past two decades. Companies like Netflix, OpenAI and Tesla went from startups to global giants in a very…

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Knowledge and Power

Nicolas Lecaussin — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:05:00 +0000

A little more than 30 years ago, George Gilder published a book titled: “Wealth and Poverty”. This book became a worldwide bestseller. As a researcher, an economist and an investor, the author showed that government intervention cannot reduce poverty, but economic growth and economic development can only achieve this goal.

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Innovations Need Companies, Not Government

Sylvain C — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:09:07 +0000

In a recent article, Lucas Léger, an IREF associate researcher, pointed out that even if the research is a French Government priority, entrepreneurship and innovation are not supported and the basic research would better off without Government intervention.

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Sweden: human development index higher in places with more immigrants

Jacob Arfwedson — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:00:59 +0000

Commentators often tend to link immigration to social problems and high unemployment. But as shown by the Swedish Reform Institute in a comprehensive study published in January 2013, this is not the case, on the contrary.

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Tax Structure and Entrepreneurship

Mina Baliamoune-Lutz — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:49:03 +0000

Executive Summary

The current crisis includes two components: high indebtedness and low growth. No easy solution is in sight, since policy-makers are currently facing a double bind, since they need extra cash from the taxpayers and also lighter taxation in order to encourage entrepreneurship, the key ingredient in economic growth.

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