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Public R&D Funding and Entrepreneurial Innovation
Koski, Heli - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008
This study does not find any significant direct relationship between the public R&D funding and the firms` innovation output. The firms obtaining the public R&D support were not performing significantly better, on average, than others. However, we find evidence that the public R&D finance has...
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Public R&D Subsidies and Employment Growth - Microeconomic Evidence from Finnish Firms
Koski, Heli - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700394
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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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Does Marginal Cost Pricing of Public Sector Information Spur Firm Growth?
Koski, Heli - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2011
The firm-level data concerning re-users of geographical information (GI) active in architectural and engineering activities and related technical consultancy sector from 15 countries during the year 2000-2007 suggests that the pricing of public sector GI strongly relates to the firms sales...
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The role of business subsidies in job-creation start-ups, gazelles and imcumbents
Koski, Heli; Pajarinen, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2011
Our data concerning the whole Finnish company population from the years 2003-2008 suggest that the impacts of business subsidies on employment growth differ more between high-growth start-ups and other firms than between start-ups and over five years old incumbents. All subsidies seem to relate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919629
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The Role of Product Innovation on the Diffusion of Mobile Telephone
Koski, Heli; Kretchmer, Tobias - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2009
Most existing empirical work on technology diffusion assumes technologies to remain constant throughout the diffusion process. However, many consumer technologies improve significantly over time. Using data on the characteristics of new mobile handsets over a ten-year period and controlling for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578333
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Product Complexity in the Adoption of User-Customized Systems
Gamharter, Benedikt; Koski, Heli; Kretschmer, Tobias - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2009
We study firm-level adoption of packaged software products of almost 4,000 UK sites between 2000 and 2003. We consider all software used in a firm as its software product and categorize it into related, but distinct subsystems : the core subsystem (Operating Systems), and Desktop and En-terprise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578336
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Firm Growth and Profitability:The Role of Mobile IT and Organizational Practices
Koski, Heli - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2010
This study uses a unique survey data from 398 Finnish manufacturing firms to explore how the order of magnitude of mobility and connectivity of a firms ICT stock in conjunction with various organizational innovation and HRM practices affect the firms performance. The data suggest that mobile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677251
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Subsidies, Shadow of Death and Productivity
Koski, Heli; Pajarinen, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2013
business subsidies on firm productivity performance and on the relationship between firms’ lagged labor productivity and market … firms’ productivity performance. It seems that particularly employment and investment subsidies tend to be allocated to the … relatively less efficient companies. We further observe that a decline in the firm’s lagged labor productivity levels are clearly …
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