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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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The Perceived Value-added of Venture Capital Investors. Evidence from Finnish Biotechnology Industry

Maunula, Mari - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2006

This study focuses on the non-financial value-added of venture capital investors (VCs) as perceived by the CEOs of Finnish biotechnology companies. It pays attention to differences in the value-added between informal venture capitalists, private sector venture capitalists and public sector...

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What makes an entrepreneur independent? Evidence from time use survey

Hyytinen, Ari; Ruuskanen, Olli-Pekka - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2006

It is a well-documented empirical regularity that it is more satisfying to be self-employed han to work as an employee for an organization. A large part of this difference in job satisfaction is in the literature attributed to the strong perception of independence by the self-employed. In this...

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Growth-orientation of nascent entrepreneurs (in Finnish with English summary)

Pajarinen, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri; Ylä-Anttila, Pekka - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2006

This report studies Finnish growth-orientated nascent entrepreneurship on the basis of an extensive computer … orientated towards international markets. A part of research conducted for the Entrepreneurship Policy Programme. Also available …

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Tax Incentives in Catalyzing Informal Venture Capital Investments (in Finnish with English abstract and summary)

Maula, Markku - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007

-oriented entrepreneurship and thereby improve the entrepreneurship culture in Finland. …

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High Growth Firms and Job Creation in Finland

Deschryvere, Matthias - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008

The goal of this descriptive paper is to identify which firms add the most employment in Finland. The analysis is based on firm and establishment data from the Finnish Business Register (period 20032006). It is found that in 2006 Finland had 750 High Growth Firms (according to the...

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The Finnish Paradox: The Curious Absence of High- Growth Entrepreneurship in Finland

Autio, Erkko - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2009

This paper looks at how well Finland performs in high growth entrepreneurship and uses data from the Global … Entrepreneurship monitor to benchmark Finland against other European countries. It is found that Finlands prevalence rate of high … weak performance in high-growth entrepreneurship goes hand in hand with Finland being a world leader in per capita …

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Analyzing Entrepreneurship with the Finnish Linked Employer-Employee Data (FLEED).Matching and qualitative properties of the data

Maliranta, Mika; Nurmi, Satu - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2004

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Importance of the Non-financial Value Added of Government and Independent Venture Capitalists

Luukkonen, Terttu; Deschryvere, Matthias; Bertoni, Fabio; … - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2011

This paper compares the post-investment value-added activities performed by governmental venture capital (GVC) and independent venture capital (IVC) for their portfolio companies, and controls for the selection effect that the different investment profiles of these investors might have on the...

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Coaching Small Biotech Companies into Success: The Value-adding Function of VC

Luukkonen, Terttu; Maunula, Mari - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2006

The paper reports an empirical study on the non-financial value-added provided by Venture Capital investors to their investee firms. This study will use a four-class grouping of the various non-financial value-adding capabilities provided by VC firms, namely, scouting, monitoring, signalling and...

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