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The impact of technological and non-technological innovations on firm growth

Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki; Martikainen, Olli - 2008

This study investigates the relationship between innovations and firm growth, based on the data of Finnish firms operating in the software industry. We find that in terms of turnover and employment, firms with only technological innovations do not grow more rapidly than other firms. However,...

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Public R&D funding and entrepreneurial innovation

Koski, Heli - 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 - 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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Is inter-firm labor mobility a channel of konwledge spillovers? Evidence from a linked employer-employee panel

Maliranta, Mika; Mohnen, Pierre; Rouvinen, Petri - 2008

An employer-employee panel is used to study whether the movement of workers across firms is a channel of unintended diffusion of R&D-generated knowledge. Somewhat surprisingly, hiring workers from others’ R&D labs to one’s own does not seem to be a significant spillover channel. Hiring...

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