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The Impact of Technological and Non-Technological Innovations on Firm Growth
Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki; Martikainen, Olli - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008
This study investigates the relationship between innovations and firm growth, based on the data of Finnish firms operating in the software industry. We find that in terms of turnover and employment, firms with only technological innovations do not grow more rapidly than other firms. However,...
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When Does Distributed Innovation Activity Make Sense? Location, Decentralization, and Innovation Success
Leiponen, Aija; Helfat, Constance E. - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2006
Companies face an expanding set of choices about where to locate their innovation activity, both within their home … of innovation activity : almost by definition, multiple locations per firm imply some degree of decentralization. Using … firm-level data on innovation output and the location of research and development (R&D) activity, we shed new light on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818449
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Determinants of Manufacturing-R&D Co-location
Ketokivi, Mikko; Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007
The phenomenon of physical R&D-manufacturing co-location is interesting, because researchers have made very different observations regarding its prevalence. In some populations co-location of the two functions seems to be the norm; in others, an exception. However, we still do not have an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005749317
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Impact of R&D on Productivity - Firm-level Evidence from Finland
Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki; Maliranta, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2006
This study analyses how R&D expenditure impacts the productivity of companies. We analyse the productivity impact of R&D using a large panel dataset of Finnish firms over a nine-year period from 1996 to 2004. Our results are two-fold. In the short run (in 1-2 years) we find no statistically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818358
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A case for non-globalization? The organisation of r&d in the wireless telecommunications industry
Di Minin, Alberto; Palmberg, Christopher - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2006
The offshoring of manufacturing has been the most visible ingredient of economic globalization in recent years. However, the rapid change in the global division of manufacturing has overshadowed another and perhaps even more significant phenomena namely the internationalization of the R&D and...
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Public Funding of R&D and Growth: Firm-level Evidence from Finland
Piekkola, Hannu - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700383
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Profits, R&D and Innovation: a Model and a Test
Bogliacino, Francesco; Pianta, Mario - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2010
demand and innovation are the key determinants for firm profitability; second that both technology adoption and R&D concur to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008520841
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Managerial Practices, Performance and Innovativeness: Some Evidence from Finnish Manufacturing
Koski, Heli; Marengo, Luigi; Mäkinen, Iiro - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2009
Our study aims at shedding light on the organizational mechanisms that produce differences in the firmsŽ innovation … fruitful for innovation. There are vast differences in the organizational practices leading to more innovation both between the … small and large firms, and between the firms that are functioning in high- and low-tech industries. While innovation in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566053
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Industrial Energy from Water-Mills in the European Economy, Fifth to Eighteenth Centuries: the Limitations of Power
Munro, John - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2001
The water-mill, though known in the Roman Empire from the second century BCE, did not come to enjoy any widespread use until the 4 th or 5 th centuries CE, and then chiefly in the West, which was then experiencing not only a rapid decline in the supply of slaves, but also widespread...
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Mobility of ideas for innovation: The role of inventor-specific knowledge flows
Koski, Heli; Pajarinen, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2015
words, the larger the knowledge pool of an inventor entering (leaving) the firm, the more the firm’s innovation performance … pharmaceuticals and mechanical engineering such that the mobility of an inventor to a firm increases its innovation performance but … the mobility of an inventor from a firm does not affect its innovation performance. We further find that particularly …
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