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When does distributed innovation activity make sense? Location, decentralization, and innovation success

Leiponen, Aija; Helfat, Constance E. - 2006

Companies face an expanding set of choices about where to locate their innovation activity, both within their home … of innovation activity: almost by definition, multiple locations per firm imply some degree of decentralization. Using … firm-level data on innovation output and the location of research and development (R&D) activity, we shed new light on the …

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A comparative survey of structural characteristics of Finnish university departments

Deschryvere, Matthias - 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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Towards demand based innovation policy? The introduction of shocks as innovation policy instrument

Nikulainen, Tuomo; Tahvanainen, Antti-Jussi - 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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Modes, challenges and outcomes of nanotechnology transfer: A comparative analysis of university and company researchers

Palmberg, Christopher - 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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Public funding of R&D and growth: Firm-level evidence from Finland

Piekkola, Hannu - 2005

This study considers employment and productivity growth generated by the public funding of R&D using linked employer-employee data in Finland. Public subsidies, instrumented by available public R&D funding in the industry/region, have a positive effect on productivity growth in small and...

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From R&D to productivity through micro level restructuring

Maliranta, Mika - 2002

This paper investigates the determinants of the between component of aggregate productivity growth, which gauges the productivity-enhancing part of plant-level restructuring. Results obtained from a panel of twelve Finnish manufacturing industries in the period from the mid-70s to the late 90s...

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