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Diagnosing the Growing Pains of a Technology-based Industry. An Examination of the Finnish Biotechnology Industry in Light of Empirical Economics

Tahvanainen, Antti-Jussi - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA)

Positioned in the context of the technology-based industrial emergence literature, this dissertation identifies and examines organizational, managerial, and institutional challenges that small and medium sized Finnish biotechnology companies have encountered during the emergence of the field as...

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The Outcomes of Individual-level Technology Transfer and the Role of Research Collaboration Networks

Nikulainen, Tuomo - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2010

This paper discusses the outcomes of university-industry interaction from the perspective of an individual academic researcher. Two contributions are made to the extant literature. First, in the existing research, the focus has mostly been on outcomes such as university-based patenting,...

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Knowledge Capital as the Source of Growth

Piekkola, Hannu - 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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Firm Lifecycles and External Restructuring

Hyytinen, Ari; Maliranta, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2011

This paper studies how firms contribute to the productivity growth of an industry over their lifecycle. We present a … decomposition method that allows us to condition the components of productivity growth on the age of production units. We find … effect is tightly related to the negative initial productivity effect of entry. We also find some evidence that productivity …

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Kilpailukyky ja globaalin toimintaympäristön muutos - Suomen koneteollisuus maailmantaloudessa

Suni, Paavo; Ylä-Anttila, Pekka - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2011

The report analyses the impacts of globalization on competitiveness of national economies, industries and firms. The focus is in mechanical and electrical engineering and machinery. Global division of labor has significantly changed over the past few decades when the large emerging economies...

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Innovaatiotoiminta - Näkemyksiä hyvinvointialaan ja työelämän kehittämiseen

Hyvärinen, Jari - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2011

. Firstly, it compares the quality and productivity based on international statistics and research reports, and R&D&I activities … the role of ICT for improving sectors productivity. In the end, the study explores well-being and quality of labour …

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Suhdanne- ja rakennekriisi yhtä aikaa? Toimiala- ja yritysrakenteen muutokset taantumassa

Maliranta, Mika; Mankinen, Reijo; Suni, Paavo; … - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2011

The study shows that the exceptional drop in volume of Finlands GDP in 2009 as much as 8 per cent was to a large extent due to huge decline in exports and production of one industry, ICT. The contribution of ICT (or electronics and electro-technical industry) to GDP decline was close to two...

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International Investment and Firm Performance: Empirical Evidence from Small Open Economies

Kaitila, Ville; McQuinn, John; Siedschlag, Iulia; … - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2013

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

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