and innovation in university research. Innovation here refers to novel approaches and potentially, breakthrough research … research in Finland. University governance influences research content very indirectly and is mediated by multiple other … factors, meaning that policy changes are not, at least in the short run, translated into changed research content. As far as …

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 … identify several factors that relate to idea generation. In different types of research networks, we find a positive connection …

While societal expectations for university research have grown, university research has become more and more dependent … currently in practice a major share of university research is conducted with external funding. This report relates the main … findings of a study that analysed the use of project-based research funding instruments at universities, most of which are …

researcher. Two contributions are made to the extant literature. First, in the existing research, the focus has mostly been on … academic entrepreneurship. This narrow focus has excluded intangible outcomes, such as the identification of new research ideas … of a boundary-spanning position in research collaboration networks with respect to the different outcomes. The empirical …

This descriptive paper analyses structural characteristics of Finnish university departments (FIDs) and benchmarks them … against foreign university departments from Scandinavia, the UK and the US (FODs). In the first place the study aims to reveal … the level of business activities at different university departments. The paper is based on new survey data that …

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

to address the product-service transition is the socio-economic view of service productivity. On that basis, the paper … servitization research from the installed base -industries to the process industries. In a wider context, this paper contributes to … the research collaboration between Aalto University (BIT) and Research Institute of the Finnish Economy, ETLA in the field …

cover essentially all firms in the Finnish business sector, we first document that labor productivity dispersion is very … market equilibrium and whether innovation subsidies can improve industry productivity by mitigating such a tax distortion. …

-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 … of almost 5 years is needed to capture the productivity impact of R&D. The fourth essay studies how patent quality …