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The Role of Data and Knowledge in Firms Service and Product Innovation

Koski, Heli - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2012

findings emphasize the role of a firms absorptive capacity and its ICT competence in data-based innovation. It seems that …

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ICT outsourcing, user-driven and open innovation strategies in the generation of new data-based solution

Koski, Heli - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2013

-based innovation generated for both firm’s own and market needs, the firm’s ICT-specific absorptive capacity matters more than its … use selective ICT outsourcing strategy, 2) they tend to involve more internal units closely to innovation activities and 3 … among different units, and further employ an ICT strategy that relies selectively on a firm’s own ICT-specific absorptive …

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The Use of Design in Finnish Manufacturing Firms

Lindström, Maarit; Pajarinen, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2006

This study analyzes the use of design and the position of the design function in Finnish manufacturing firms. We also study the impact of design on companies business performance. The paper is based on a survey directed to the member companies of the Confederation of Finnish Industries (EK) in...

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Domestic Employment Effects of Offshoring: Empirical Evidence from Finland

Deschryvere, Matthias; Kotiranta, Annu - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008

This study empirically explores whether the propensity to offshore affects the total domestic employment at the firm level. The analysis is based on a Finnish weighted sample of 652 firms and screens the effect of offshoring different kinds of tasks. Two main channels of offshoring tasks are...

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Career and Wage Dynamics: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Kauhanen, Antti; Napari, Sami - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2011

We study career and wage dynamics within and between firms using a large linked employer-employee panel dataset spanning 26 years. We construct six-level hierarchies for more than 5,000 firms. We replicate most of the analyses from Baker, Gibbs and Holmström (Quarterly Journal of Economics,...

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Business and Intellectual Capital Development in Financial Riptide - Case Studies of Finnish Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Companies Dispersing into Global Value Chains

Kulvik, Martti; Tähtinen, Marja; Ylä-Anttila, Pekka - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2013

This study focused on two primary areas: 1. To determine what can be learned from biotech and drug development companies that suffered from financial problems and ultimately failed at the beginning of the 21st century. 2. To determine how intellectual capital developed in accordance with such...

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Suomalaisen innovaatiojärjestelmän mosaiikki - alueellisten teemavalintojen tarkastelu

Harmaakorpi, Vesa; Hermans, Raine; Uotila, Tuomo - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2009

Several regional technology and innovation strategy documents have been written covering every region within Finland in recent years. However, the approaches, methods and semantics used in those documents vary considerably. This variation has made it difficult to compare them with each other....

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Determinants of Manufacturing-R&D Co-location

Ketokivi, Mikko; Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007

The phenomenon of physical R&D-manufacturing co-location is interesting, because researchers have made very different observations regarding its prevalence. In some populations co-location of the two functions seems to be the norm; in others, an exception. However, we still do not have an...

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Biotechnology as a Competitive Edge for the Finnish Forest Cluster

Hakala, Terhi; Haltia, Olli; Hermans, Raine; Kulvik, Martti - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007

In this study we have collected information by interviewing all identified parties within the Finnish forest sector who might have a potential biotechnology connection : university research groups, research institutions, small and medium-sized biotechnology-companies and up to the largest forest...

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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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