an increase in competition. The economy transformed itself from investment-driven economy to a more innovation-driven one …

innovation system. Three virtually simultaneous changes are of special importance. The first is the massive on-going renewal of … foundation of the so-called Strategic Centres for Science, Technology and Innovation (Finnish acronym: SHOK) that aim at … Centres for Science ; Technology and Innovation ; SHOK ; Universities Act ; University Inventions Act ; university technology …

the eligibility age thresholds for unemployment and part-time pension schemes and the effect of tightening medical … from age 58 upwards and to a lower incidence of unemployment at younger ages. The policy effects are found to be …

employed. The idea is to compare the difference between the net income from market work and the unemployment benefits that have …

be used to predict the present and the near future unemployment rate in Finland. Predicting the present and the near … information contained in Google search queries, the report compares a simple predictive model of unemployment to a model that … future unemployment 3 months ahead. Google search queries also tend to improve the prediction accuracy around turning points …