The importance of data and different sources of knowledge in the development of new services and products, and further in the creation of new markets, has dramatically increased during the past few decades. This empirical study uses data from 531 Finnish firms to explore the determinants of...

Network industries have special characteristics that may influence the nature and the order of magnitude of entry and exit barriers in these industries. Consequently, the entry and exit dynamics of network industries such as the information and communications (ICT) sector may differ from those...

New technologies in the globalized business environment are shaping competitive strategies in unprecedented ways. As important as the race for developing more advanced ICT products is the ability to convert these advances into a higher productivity of the assets in other economic activities....

The study analyses the price formation and market functionality of the Finnish food chain. A significant portion of the report consists of international comparisons. The main comparison countries are the so-called old EU countries (EU15) of Western Europe, the new EU countries (EU12) and the...