Institutional Reform for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Niklas Elert Ph.D., is a research fellow at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm, Sweden. He received his Ph.D. on the topic of Economic Dynamism – Essays on firm entry and firm growth in 2014 at Örebro University, Sweden. His current research focuses on entrepreneurship and firm dynamics. Magnus Henrekson is a professor and president of the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm, Sweden. Until 2009, he was the Jacob Wallenberg Professor at the Department of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics. Since the end of the 1990s, his primary research field has been entrepreneurship economics.Mikael Stenkula, Ph.D., is a research fellow at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm, Sweden. His research focus is on entrepreneurship, business structures and taxation.

• Introduction: Europe's Innovation Emergency.- Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the European Union - a Reform Agenda.- Summary and Conclusions.