This report studies start-ups and entrepreneurship particularly in services. The report is largely based on a survey targeted to Finnish businesses established in October 2003. The Finnish total entrepreneurial activity is relatively low in international comparison. Furthermore, established...

Statistics Finland maintains a database which includes firm level data on public support in Finland. During this study it contained data from the years 2000-6. So far the data has been underutilized in economic and statistical analyses. We use the database in this descriptive study mainly to...

The study investigates empirically how ownership affects firms' domestic employment and its fluctuations. We look at six different ownership categories: first generation family businesses, second generation (or older) family businesses, state-owned companies, foreign-owned companies, publicly...

This paper studies whether family businesses (FBs) differ from non-family businesses (non-FBs) in various dimensions of globalization with a representative sample of businesses in Finnish manufacturing and private services. FBs and non-FBs are not so different when it comes to export and...

Tässä raportissa tutkitaan aloittavia ja erityisesti kasvuhakuisia yrittäjiä ja heidän yrityksiään laajaa tietokoneavusteista puhelinkyselyä hyödyntäen. Tulosten valossa näyttää siltä, että kasvuhakuinen uusyrittäjä on usein korkeahkon teknisen koulutuksen omaava mies, hänellä...

Tuottavuuden nousu on Suomessa ollut erityisesti 1990-luvun alun laman jälkeen kansainvälisesti vertaillen hyvin nopeaa. Koko taloudessa työn tuottavuus on noussut 1980- luvun alusta 75-80 % eli noin 2,5 kertaa nopeammin kuin teollisuusmaissa keskimäärin. Palveluissakin tuottavuuden kasvu...

T&k:lle mahdollisesti suunnattavien verokannustimien vaikutusten arviointi etukäteen on vaikeaa, koska järjestelmän yksityiskohtia ei ole tiedossa ja eri toimijoiden reaktioihin liittyy epävarmuutta. Tässä raportissa sovellettu lähestymistapa perustuu yrityskyselyihin sekä tulosten...

In the globalized world economy the crucial issue is locational competition - where internationally competitive firms invest and locate their high value-added production. The policy challenge is to enhance firms' capabilities to create firm-specific competitive advantages linked to certain...

The report looks at investment activity in Finland by industries and types of investment, and makes international comparisons. Investment rate (fixed investment in relation to GDP) fell in Finland in the early 1990s from an internationally high level to the average West European rate. Among key...

There is a deep structural transformation going on In the Finnish electrical, electronics and IT services sector. The main reason is a major turning point in ICT due to diminishing production and employment in mobile telecom industry where large amount of high-skill jobs will disappear in the...