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Verkostoitumisen yhteys yritysten kannattavuuteen ja kasvuun: empiirisiä havaintoja
Pajarinen, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA)
organized and conducted. Keywords : Inter-firm networking, business collaboration, outsourcing, profitability, growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700283
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010987315
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Essay on Internationalisation Potential of Nortwest Russian and Finnish Energy Clusters
Filippov, Pavel; Yurkovsky, Vlad - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007
Finnish and Russian energy clusters widely use resources and competences of each other. They can be considered as a good example of broader phenomenon which is internationalisation of clusters. Though these clusters are on very different development stages their internationalisation ambitions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818413
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CanŽt block, must run: Small firms and appropriality
Byma, Justin; Leiponen, Aija - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2006
This empirical study examines small firms strategies towards appropriating the returns to their investments in innovation and finds that they are qualitatively different from those found in earlier studies of more generally representative samples of firms. First, few of the smallest firms appear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005749348
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IT Outsourcing in Finnish Business
Maliranta, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri; Airaksinen, Aarno - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008
This paper reviews the characteristics and magnitude of information technology (IT) outsourcing as well as studies its …-Internet business-to-business applications (e.g., EDI) is the leading activity in this respect. The various dimensions of IT outsourcing … findings nevertheless suggest that IT outsourcing may have significant economic consequences. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005749372
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Innovation Does Not Equal R&D. Strategic Innovation Profiles and Firm Growth
Ketokivi, Mikko; Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2010
In this paper, we examine firm innovation and its link to firm growth. Instead of using the conventional conceptualization and operationalization of innovation in terms of the R&D budget, we use a more elaborate 12-dimensional conceptualization, which takes into account also the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010987251
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Expectations, Reality and Performance in the Finnish Biotechnology Business
Nikulainen, Tuomo; Tahvanainen, Antti-Jussi; Kulvik, Martti - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2012
In this paper our aim is to assess the evolution of the Finnish biotechnology sector during the 2000s. Particular focus is given to the growth expectations and realized outcomes of Finnish biotechnology companies, to the evolution of public investments, and to potential determinants of company...
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Does Marginal Cost Pricing of Public Sector Information Spur Firm Growth?
Koski, Heli - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2011
The firm-level data concerning re-users of geographical information (GI) active in architectural and engineering activities and related technical consultancy sector from 15 countries during the year 2000-2007 suggests that the pricing of public sector GI strongly relates to the firms sales...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323079
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Does Inter-Organizational Networking Support Regional Development? Evidence from a Survey of Finnish Enterprises
Pajarinen, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008
Three fourths of Finnish business enterprises have relationships that are deeper than those associated with normal market transactions, i.e., they are involved in inter-organizational networking. Regionally networking is more commonplace in North Savo, North Karelia/Kainuu, Central Finland and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818379
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Is Inter-firm Labor Mobility a Channel of Knowledge Spillovers? Evidence from a Linked Employer-Employee Panel
Maliranta, Mika; Mohnen, Pierre; Rouvinen, Petri - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008
An employer-employee panel is used to study whether the movement of workers across firms is a channel of unintended diffusion of R&D-generated knowledge. Somewhat surprisingly, hiring workers from others R&D labs to ones own does not seem to be a significant spillover channel. Hiring workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818446