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Will production relocate from Asia to Finland? Case Bicycle (in Finnish with English abstract and summary)
Kalm, Matias; Seppälä, Timo - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2012
produced in Finland, and 58–59%, if the production is outsourced. In conclusion, the results show that outsourcing offshore is …, since the outsourcing partners create only 2% of the total value added. …
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Openness, Specialisation and Vulnerability of the Nordic Countries
Kaitila, Ville; Virkola, Tuomo - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2014
In this paper we analyse to what extent the Nordic economies are vulnerable to external shocks. Specifi cally, we assess the conventional wisdom that the Nordic countries are small open economies that are sig nificantly engaged in international trade, specialised in only few specific industries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010987115
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Who Captures Value in Global Supply Chains? Case Nokia N95 Smartphone
Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki; Rouvinen, Petri; Seppälä, Timo; … - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2011
Available statistics tell us little about the economic consequences of increasing global dispersion of production processes. In order to shed light on the issue, we perform grass roots detective work to uncover the geography of value added in the case of a Nokia N95 smartphone circa 2007. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855638
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Servitization as a Productive Strategy of a Firm - Evidence from the Forest-Based Industries
Viitamo, Esa - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2013
to address the product-service transition is the socio-economic view of service productivity. On that basis, the paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010987118
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Subsidies, Shadow of Death and Productivity
Koski, Heli; Pajarinen, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2013
business subsidies on firm productivity performance and on the relationship between firms’ lagged labor productivity and market … firms’ productivity performance. It seems that particularly employment and investment subsidies tend to be allocated to the … relatively less efficient companies. We further observe that a decline in the firm’s lagged labor productivity levels are clearly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010987353
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T&K -panostusten kansantaloudelliset vaikutukset
Rantala, Olavi - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2006
R&D inputs and productivity are transmitted to domestic demand mainly through wage and private consumption growth and to … dominates the overall effect on GDP growth because an increase in R&D inputs boosts productivity in industry the most. An … most effective in terms of their impact on national productivity. Raising R&D inputs in the forest industry and the …
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Informational Mobility and Productivity - Finnish Evidence
Maliranta, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818441
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005036737
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Trade Potential, Intra-industry Trade and Factor Content Revealed Comperative Advantage in the Baltic Sea Region
Wirgrén, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2006
This paper investigates trade potential, intra-industry trade and comparative advantage in the Baltic Sea Region. The evaluation of regions comparative advantage and intra-industry trade are based on the Balassa index of revealed comparative advantage and the Grubel-Lloyd index respectively. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005749273
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Resource allocation in health care processes: A case study
Kauhanen, Antti; Kulvik, Martti; Kulvik, Silja; … - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2013
This paper utilizes queuing models to analyze health care processes. We extend previous queuing models to allow for i) heterogeneous resources, ii) resource allocation to various tasks, and iii) teams (complementary resources). We model a process of one clinical unit. We use the model to analyze...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010987357