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, development and innovation (RDI), such as teaching of languages, cultures and marketing. This is a pilot study. In the future a …
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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 …
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This study conducts an international comparison of productivity and profitability. First, the level and growth of productivity are compared in OECD countries for the period from 1975 to 2009. According to this comparison, productivity growth has been faster in the key Finnish sectors com-pared...
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We analyse foreign-owned companies operating in Finland and compare them with domestic non-multinational firms while controlling separately for domestic multinational firms. The statistical and micro-econometric analysis is done using Statistics Finland data that contain all firms with at least...
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This study examines structures and challenges in the Finnish well-being sector from the innovation activity perspective … markets, and innovation activities in Finland. …
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In this study we focus on differences in careers and wage development between white-collar workers. We are interested in the questions of which factors contribute to these differences and at what stage of the career they occur. Furthermore, we investigate the wage effects of the different types...
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The 1990's was a turbulent period for Finnish postgraduate education. The education system was reformed and the number of postgraduate students who graduated every year increased at a fast pace. In this thesis doctorate and licentiate degree holders as a group, as well as how their labour market...
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employing PhDs can be divided into productivity and innovation effects as well as knowledge contributions from networking, and … for both the diffusion of knowledge in the economy and the development of the career and wage profiles of PhDs. Because of … the recent development, the existing knowledge gaps and the rapidly ageing research conducted up to this day, there is …
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We examine gender differences in careers using a large linked employer-employee dataset on Finnish white-collar manufacturing workers over the period of 1981-2006. Our focus is on labour market entrants whom we follow over time. We find that men start their careers from higher ranks of the...
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The primary findings of our study suggest that software firms that adopt the OSS-based business model are notably less productive than companies that merely offer proprietary software solutions. Our estimation results further show that the OSS business model adopters have not become notably less...
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