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Public R&D Funding and Entrepreneurial Innovation

Koski, Heli - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008

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 …

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Impact of R&D on Productivity - Firm-level Evidence from Finland

Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki; Maliranta, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2006

This study analyses how R&D expenditure impacts the productivity of companies. We analyse the productivity impact of R&D using a large panel dataset of Finnish firms over a nine-year period from 1996 to 2004. Our results are two-fold. In the short run (in 1-2 years) we find no statistically...

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Modes, Challenges and Outcomes of Nanotechnology Transfer - A Comparative Analysis University and Company Researchers

Palmberg, Christopher - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007

Nanotechnology has been proposed as the next general purpose technology and engine for growth for the 21th century. Increasing public R&D investments are foremost reflected in the growth of scientific publications, while nanotechnology still is in an uncertain phase of development with various...

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Towards Demand Based Innovation Policy? The Introduction of SHOKs as Innovation Policy Instrument

Nikulainen, Tuomo; Tahvanainen, Antti-Jussi - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2009

This paper aims to provide an overview of the recently introduced demand based innovation policy instrument in Finland … - the Strategic Centers for Science, Technology and Innovation (in Finnish - SHOKs). SHOKs are formed to support the … innovative activities of existing industries in Finland with emphasis on industrial renewal through innovation. The focus in this …

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Transferring Science-based Technologies to Industry - Does Nanotechnology Make a Difference?

Palmberg, Christopher; Pajarinen, Mika; Nikulainen, Tuomo - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007

Nanotechnology has been touted as a general purpose technology (GPT) and engine of growth for the 21th century, following in the footsteps of ICT. Nanotechnology is still in an early phase of development, it is scientist driven and thus largely exogenous to the economy at present. In Finland the...

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Does Marginal Cost Pricing of Public Sector Information Spur Firm Growth?

Koski, Heli - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2011

The firm-level data concerning re-users of geographical information (GI) active in architectural and engineering activities and related technical consultancy sector from 15 countries during the year 2000-2007 suggests that the pricing of public sector GI strongly relates to the firms sales...

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Public R&D Subsidies and Employment Growth - Microeconomic Evidence from Finnish Firms

Koski, Heli - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008

in other companies. The relationship between the firms total innovation and employment growth is not statistically …

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Do Business Subsidies Facilitate Employment Growth?

Koski, Heli; Pajarinen, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2011

al. (2008), that both product innovation and sales growth from a firms old products contribute to the firms employment … growth. Process innovation, instead, does not seem to have any significant effect on employment. …

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Commercialization of academic research. A comparison between researchers in the U.S. and Finland

Nikulainen, Tuomo; Tahvanainen, Antti-Jussi - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2013

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....

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A Comparative Survey of Structural Characteristics of Finnish University Departments

Deschryvere, Matthias - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2009

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 information on differences in department size. In...

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