There are almost 200,000 enterprises operating in the Finnish service sector, combined. However, not all of the service … in the service industries which do not depend on geography, and where the economies of scale apply the most. …

The growth of services - leveraged by the servitization of manufacturing - stresses the urgency of novel approaches and … outlines the microeconomic frame for the integrative analysis of service productivity. The integrative frame is further refined … contingency argument implies that when technology, strategy and the organization of a service firm are mutually consistent, it is …

separately for manufacturing and services using Finnish private-sector data. We apply a decomposition method based on …

This paper compares the effects of intangible capital on wage formation among white-collar manufacturing workers using …

We analyse the degree of EU countries’ specialisation in their exports and manufacturing value added using the … thereafter. However, exports have become more specialised at the product level (HS6) during the euro years. Manufacturing value … special cases. Export structures became more similar before 2008. However, manufacturing value added similarity decreased. GDP …

The phenomenon of physical R&D-manufacturing co-location is interesting, because researchers have made very different … manufacturing and R&D may have to be physically co-located. In a sample of 241 Finnish industrial firms, we find that the need for …

This study analyzes the use of design and the position of the design function in Finnish manufacturing firms. We also … manufacturing companies is still on a relatively low level. Design use varies clearly among analyzed companies, though. Results show … which design is used continuously. Results also indicate that the use of design in manufacturing firms in Finland will …

existing empirical literature by utilizing panel data that contain information on all manufacturing subsectors from eight EU …