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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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Tax incentives for R&D and firm dynamics (in Finnish with English abstract and summary)

Määttänen, Niku; Maliranta, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007

We compare different tax incentive schemes for private R&D investments using a numerical model of R&D-investments and firm dynamics. We find that tax incentives that are based on the incremental annual spending increase firms' R&D spending much more than tax incentives that are based on the...

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Innovation, Firm Risk and Industry Productivity

Maliranta, Mika; Määttänen, Niku - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2014

Radical innovations require risk-taking. However, it is hard to find an objective measure for innovation investments … that would take riskiness into account. In this paper, we investigate how a simple measure of firms’ innovation investments …. We then build a simple model where firms’ innovation activities and firm risk are interrelated. We use the model to …

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Patents and Technological Change - A Review with Focus on the FEPOCI Database

Nikulainen, Tuomo; Pajarinen, Mika; Palmberg, Christopher - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2005

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Transferring Science-based Technologies to Industry - Does Nanotechnology Make a Difference?

Palmberg, Christopher; Pajarinen, Mika; Nikulainen, Tuomo - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007

Nanotechnology has been touted as a general purpose technology (GPT) and engine of growth for the 21th century, following in the footsteps of ICT. Nanotechnology is still in an early phase of development, it is scientist driven and thus largely exogenous to the economy at present. In Finland the...

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Modes, Challenges and Outcomes of Nanotechnology Transfer - A Comparative Analysis University and Company Researchers

Palmberg, Christopher - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007

Nanotechnology has been proposed as the next general purpose technology and engine for growth for the 21th century. Increasing public R&D investments are foremost reflected in the growth of scientific publications, while nanotechnology still is in an uncertain phase of development with various...

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