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 …

This study examines how deregulation affects product market competition and thereby productivity. Productivity grows … to renounce high rents and cut costs, which increases static efficiency. However, static efficiency boosts productivity … rivals, they ensure firms a quiet life. Deregulation has therefore great potential to boost productivity growth. This study …

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 …

findings emphasize the role of a firms absorptive capacity and its ICT competence in data-based innovation. It seems that … customer involvement in innovation process positively relates to the production of new data-based products and services. The … reported empirical findings further indicate that data-based product and service innovation tends to be rather strongly demand-driven. …

innovation and finds that they are qualitatively different from those found in earlier studies of more generally representative …, only the largest firms were likely to identify patents as the most important method of appropriating innovation returns … regarding the functioning of the existing systems of intellectual property rights when key policy goals include innovation by …

Our study aims at shedding light on the organizational mechanisms that produce differences in the firmsŽ innovation … fruitful for innovation. There are vast differences in the organizational practices leading to more innovation both between the … small and large firms, and between the firms that are functioning in high- and low-tech industries. While innovation in the …