technological change and productivity growth takes place in an economy. Quite normally, some 30-50% of an industrys productivity … growth is due to this particular mechanism. Disruptions to this mechanism would have considerable effects on productivity …

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 … identify several factors that relate to idea generation. In different types of research networks, we find a positive connection …

activity. This aspect has received surprisingly little attention in prior research. The regression analyses show that there is …

analyse the effects of foreign mergers and acquisitions on labour productivity and employment growth up to five years after …

to address the product-service transition is the socio-economic view of service productivity. On that basis, the paper … servitization research from the installed base -industries to the process industries. In a wider context, this paper contributes to … the research collaboration between Aalto University (BIT) and Research Institute of the Finnish Economy, ETLA in the field …

cover essentially all firms in the Finnish business sector, we first document that labor productivity dispersion is very … market equilibrium and whether innovation subsidies can improve industry productivity by mitigating such a tax distortion. …

-R&D employment. The third essay focuses on the productivity effects of R&D. The results of empirical analyses are two-fold. In the … short run (in 1-2 years), no statistically significant productivity impact of R&D is found. However, R&D does have an … of almost 5 years is needed to capture the productivity impact of R&D. The fourth essay studies how patent quality …