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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 …
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Existing research argues that the keys to generating industry-relevant knowledge are interdisciplinary and networked research. The aim of this paper is to address statistically whether interdisciplinary and networked research are related to a higher potential to generate ideas with significant...
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This paper aims to identify factors that relate to scientists’ propensity to make commercially significant scientific discoveries (inventions) and to describe how these inventions are commercialized. Based on a large survey of academics active in different fields of science at U.S....
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universities with more financial and operational flexibility and autonomy and, thus, with better premises to fulfil the three …, the expected benefits of the renewal of the Universities Act mainly comprise of the increasing financial flexibility of …
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Tuskin mihinkään muuhun teknologian kehittämiseen on sijoitettu maailmanlaajuisesti niin lyhyessä ajassa yhtä paljon julkisia varoja kuin nanoteknologiaan. Nanoteknologialla tarkoitetaan yleensä toiminnallisesti uudentyyppisiin materiaaleihin ja nanomittakaavan (1-100nm) rakenteisiin...
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contained in the conclusion, that performance objectives and methods of improving the public sector productivity are not similar … sector. In the private sector, all organizational levels usually get benefits from productivity improvements, but in the …
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This study empirically explores whether the public financial support for entrepreneurial R&D affects employment growth at the firm level. The data from the Finnish companies suggests that the firms that have received public R&D funding have not generally witnessed any greater employment growth...
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General purpose technologies (GPT) have a significant impact on economic activity through radical technological change and wide technological diffusion. This paper aims to address the generality of technologies associated with the GPT concept. Information and communications technologies (ICT),...
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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...
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