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This thesis studies the impacts of technology development and R&D subsidies. The first essay examines whether public …-R&D employment. The third essay focuses on the productivity effects of R&D. The results of empirical analyses are two-fold. In the … short run (in 1-2 years), no statistically significant productivity impact of R&D is found. However, R&D does have an …
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market equilibrium and whether innovation subsidies can improve industry productivity by mitigating such a tax distortion. … cover essentially all firms in the Finnish business sector, we first document that labor productivity dispersion is very …
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-nationality crews grows at current rates, this would lower shipping subsidies - in 2015 the savings would amount to over 10 million …
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An important prerequisite for the renewal of Finland’s industrial and economic base is the ability of the universities to promote the renewal of the knowledge base. The UNI project studied ways in which changes in external funding mechanisms and recent governance changes in Finnish...
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This study analyses the dynamics of productivity growth at the micro level in Finnish manufacturing industries. It is … shown that productivity-enhancing restructuring (so-called “creative destruction”) has played a crucial role especially … important for economic development. An increase in productivity divergenceseems to precede increases in creative destruction …
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Evaluating the possible consequences of R&D tax incentives before their introduction is challenging, not least because the details of the system remain unknown, and because the ultimate reactions and responses of various actors involved remain uncertain. In order to shed some light on the issue,...
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The turnover of the companies in North Savo in 2011 was nearly 10 billion euros, of which industry accounted for just under a third. The industrial structure of the region is not strong, but on the other hand it is not alarmingly thin either, because it does have certain successful niches. North...
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Energy industries in Russia and in Northwest Russia in particular are of the utmost importance and occupy the largest shares in the total industrial production and exports. Northwest Russia is developing into the major export hub for the Russian energy exports. It means that the appropriate...
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equipment are outdated, productivity is low and production consists mainly of products with low value added. In principle, the …
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