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. …

generate notable multiplicative effects in the economy. According to the findings, the productivity and the growth rates of the … effects will generated by Metsä Fibre’s investment into their new bioproduct factory in Äänekoski, Finland. The calculations … significance of the investment will only become evident in the production phase, since not all investments of equal scale produce …

&D efforts. Traditionally, the effects of R&D on productivity have been assessed from an econometrically estimated production …-output model to compute quality indices for investment goods and, further, the capital stock by sector gives a new approach for … modelling the improvement of technology and the growth of total factor productivity. In this case, the residual of the …

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 …

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 …