past few decades when the large emerging economies - notably China - have increased their role in world's industrial …

practices have been recognised as the best in the world in studies that utilise a long-standing survey project called the World …

International literature suggests that productivity growth of the global frontier firms – those in the best five … productivity of the Finnish frontier firms does not diverge from the others to such a degree as in the international comparisons …

covering other business subsidies and public venture capital investments. R&D subsidies have mostly positive impacts on … employment, especially among young and small companies. Impacts on the productivity are, however, uncertain. Cooperation of … public and private investors maximizes the impact of public venture capital investments. The other business subsidies may …

&D efforts. Traditionally, the effects of R&D on productivity have been assessed from an econometrically estimated production … function specification where the R&D input has been inserted as an additional factor of production along with the capital and …-output model to compute quality indices for investment goods and, further, the capital stock by sector gives a new approach for …

Productivity in Finland has been increasing very rapidly since the 1980s. The increase from 1980 to 2001 was as much as … sector was 60 %, i.e., 2 times more than the industrial countries. average. Despite the rapid increase the productivity level … telecommunications and transportation, the productivity level is, however, very high by international standards. Productivity differences …