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 …

largest organizations in the Finnish innovation and business support system. Finpro regards its mission to include …

internationalization of business) services impacts on the internationalization and performance of small and medium-sized firms in Finland …. We measure internationalization and firm performance using a number of complementary indicators. The results indicate … performance. However, different methods of evaluation and data sets produce somewhat inconsistent results. The study also looks at …

The aim of this paper is to broaden the knowledge concerning the development of Finnish firms’ innovation activities … results suggest that Finnish firms invest approximately Eur 1.8 billion in innovation activities outside the traditional R …