This paper aims to establish how the innovative activity in Finland has changed over time in the transition from a resource-driven economy to a knowledge-driven economy. The paper first takes a historical perspective on innovation and industrial activity in Finland through a descriptive...

This paper studies how firms contribute to the productivity growth of an industry over their lifecycle. We present a decomposition method that allows us to condition the components of productivity growth on the age of production units. We find evidence for a prolonged positive exit effect that...

Private services account for over a half of GDP in developed industrialised countries. We analyse how productivity in private services is measured, the challenges and problems that the measuring faces, and the direction that research is currently taking. After this we analyse the level of and...

This paper addresses the question of the software companies timing of adoption of the open source software (OSS) business models comprising the supply of OSS products and/or services. The game-theoretic technology adoption models do not explain well the observed diffusion patterns of the OSS...

Suomen talous on joutunut jyrkkään taantumaan, joka uhkaa muodostua syväksi lamaksi. Koska tilanteen taustalla ovat kysynnän hiipuminen kansainvälisessä taloudessa ja kotimaassa ja koska epävarmuuden lisääntyessä likviditeettirajoitusten merkitys kasvaa, voidaan taantumaa...

Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan Suomen kansantalouden tulevaa kehi-tystä, jos ja kun nykyiseen taantumaan liittyy myös rakennekriisi. Sen mukaan talou-den potentiaalisen tuotannon ura saattaa sekä taittua matalammalle tasolle että kasvaa sen jälkeen hitaampaa vauhtia kuin ennen. Näitä...

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 since the mid-1980s. Empirical evidence is provided...

There is a deep structural transformation going on In the Finnish electrical, electronics and IT services sector. The main reason is a major turning point in ICT due to diminishing production and employment in mobile telecom industry where large amount of high-skill jobs will disappear in the...

Existing research argues that the keys to generating industry-relevant knowledge are interdisciplinary and networked research. The aim of this paper is to address statistically whether interdisciplinary and networked research are related to a higher potential to generate ideas with significant...

This paper aims to identify factors that relate to scientists’ propensity to make commercially significant scientific discoveries (inventions) and to describe how these inventions are commercialized. Based on a large survey of academics active in different fields of science at U.S....