innovation environments for firms and research centres. This study shows that those countries who invest wisely to develop their … innovation environment will be successful in high technology export markets. In recent years, Finnish high technology exports … have declined because of difficulties in telecommunication sector. Productivity analysis shows that high country-level R …

Abstract: To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupation based measures of … changes. Our results support the view that organisational change complements ICT investments in a productivity …-enhancing manner. In particular, the ICT-driven productivity gains are associated with the destruction of routine and non …

R&D inputs and productivity are transmitted to domestic demand mainly through wage and private consumption growth and to … dominates the overall effect on GDP growth because an increase in R&D inputs boosts productivity in industry the most. An … most effective in terms of their impact on national productivity. Raising R&D inputs in the forest industry and the …

This study analyses how R&D expenditure impacts the productivity of companies. We analyse the productivity impact of R … short run (in 1-2 years) we find no statistically significant productivity impact of R&D. However, R&D does have an … almost 5 years is needed to capture the productivity impact of R&D. …

This study does not find any significant direct relationship between the public R&D funding and the firms` innovation …, we find evidence that the public R&D finance has substantially influenced the innovation output of the firms that have … performance in terms of innovation. Those large firms that have more intensively collaborated with the SMS firm partners in their …

analyse the effects of foreign mergers and acquisitions on labour productivity and employment growth up to five years after …

occupational structures when explaining productivity and profitability gaps between global and local firms. The findings indicate … reflected in their productivity, it is not as clearly reflected in their profitability.The findings imply that employees have … captured a dominant share of the productivity advantage of global firms. …

This study conducts an international comparison of productivity and profitability. First, the level and growth of … productivity are compared in OECD countries for the period from 1975 to 2009. According to this comparison, productivity growth has … productivity, prices and labour compensation. The results show that profitability in Finnish manufacturing is competitive because …