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 …

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 …

This paper investigates the connection between firm entry and exit and labour productivity growth. The study has its … importance of productivity enhancing restructuring has been increasingly acknowledged and all these theories depict the … productivity enhancing effects that external restructuring - in particular firm entry and exit may have. Despite the vast …

economies in the European Union. Specifically, using micro data for manufacturing and services over the period 2001-2009, we … analyse the effects of foreign mergers and acquisitions on labour productivity and employment growth up to five years after … acquisition. Our results indicate that foreign investors tend to acquire larger firms in both manufacturing and services. Other …