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 …

This paper investigates the connection between firm entry and exit and labour productivity growth. The study has its … existing empirical literature by utilizing panel data that contain information on all manufacturing subsectors from eight EU … enhancing effects of firm entry are the strongest three years after the initial entry. The effects of firm exit on labour …

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 …

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

separately for manufacturing and services using Finnish private-sector data. We apply a decomposition method based on …, including their underlying sources, of innovation and non-innovation workers for too broadly defined segments of the labour …