growth and employment, and an overlook on the impacts of different policy measures on companies. The role of large companies … employment, especially among young and small companies. Impacts on the productivity are, however, uncertain. Cooperation of … help firms to grow larger but do not improve their productivity. …

This report studies start-ups and entrepreneurship particularly in services. The report is largely based on a survey … international comparison. Furthermore, established firms have on average relatively modest growth ambitions. In Finland … entrepreneurship in services has grown the fastest and employs the most. Service and female entrepreneurship seem to be on the increase …

75.80% in the economy as a whole, i.e., 2.5 times more than in the OECD area on average. The growth in the services …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 …

on productivity growth, we estimate that Finland could achieve an annual growth rate of about 2 per cent in the coming 5 … the growth prospects in the coming 5 years. The weakness of Finland’s performance relative to comparative EU … recovery in turn stems from a stronger export market growth, the fading away of the negative Nokia shock, and the improvement …

The report examines the dynamics of company size classes in Finland and the relationship between growth barriers and …, categorizing them based on both the number of employees and revenue. The study also explores growth barriers and whether companies … barriers to growth experienced by companies. Statistically significant differences between size categories were observed for …