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In Defense of Electricity as a General Purpose Technology
Kander, Astrid; Schön, Lennart; Enflo, Kerstin - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2007
energy productivity and overall productivity in the American economy in the 1920s. This view was challenged by Nicholas and … Moser (2004) based on patent statistics. We argue that other methods are required for studying productivity effects and … propose cointegration analyses. We demonstrate a clear impact from electrification on energy productivity in those broad …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005148507
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Electrification and energy productivity
Enflo, Kerstin; Kander, Astrid; Schön, Lennart - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2008
effect of electricity on energy productivity in Swedish industry 1930-1990. Electricity augmented energy productivity in … those industrial branches that used electricity for multiple purposes. This productivity effect goes beyond “book …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077281
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Innovaatiotoiminta - Suomi globaalitaloudessa. Loppuraportti
Hyvärinen, Jari - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2012
have declined because of difficulties in telecommunication sector. Productivity analysis shows that high country-level R …&D expenditures as in Finland and the United States - have positive correlation with labour productivity in manufacturing. Moreover …, labour productivity in manufacturing in OECD countries relates positively with FDI and R&D expenditure growth. Also the level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399069
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Innovation and corporate employment growth revisited
Herstad, Sverre J.; Sandven, Tore - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2015
Using Norwegian Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data linked to public employment registers covering the years 2004 - 2010, this paper investigates the relationship between employment growth prior to the event of innovation, innovation output, and growth performance after the event. Positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011164352
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Informational Mobility and Productivity - Finnish Evidence
Maliranta, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818441
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Linking scientific and practical knowledge in innovation systems
Isaksen, Arne; Nilsson, Magnus - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2011
New research indicates that firms combining the science-based STI (Science, Technology, Innovation) and the experience-based DUI (Doing, Using, Interacting) modes of innovation are more efficient when it comes to improving innovation capacity and competitiveness. With regard to innovation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386411
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The Research Environment in Flux Researchers Views on the Recent Changes in the Finnish Innovation System
Tahvanainen, Antti-Jussi; Nikulainen, Tuomo - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2010
This study examines the researchers perspective on the impact of recent major changes in the Finnish research environment. Three virtually simultaneous changes are of special importance. The first is the on-going renewal of the Universities Act governing the Finnish higher education system in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765838
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Competence Building: A Systemic Approach to Innovation Policy
Borrás, Susana; Edquist, Charles - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013
The main question that guides this paper is how governments are focusing (and must focus) on competence building (education and training) when designing and implementing innovation policies. With this approach, the paper aims at filling the gap between the existing literature on competences on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010722776
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Do Business Subsidies Facilitate Employment Growth?
Koski, Heli; Pajarinen, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2011
We use data from 15508 Finnish companies with 10 or more employees for the years 2003-2008 to explore the relationship between employment growth and three endogenously determined business subsidy types (i.e. employment subsidy, R&D subsidy and other business subsidies). We find a positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784510
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Commercialization at Finnish Universities - Researchers Perspectives on the Motives and Challenges of Turning Science into Business
Tahvanainen, Antti-Jussi; Nikulainen, Tuomo - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2011
For developed countries, continuous innovation has been a prerequisite for economic growth for some time. Because radical innovations often require considerable slack and freedom in researching the relevant underlying phenomena, universities are considered the primary loci for generating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794521