Large industrial complexes were the engines of the Soviet economy, which collapsed in 1991. Advancing economic growth in Russia is a question of how well these previous agglomerations will be transformed into market-driven industry clusters, and what kind of new business activities free...

Globalisaation on tällä hetkellä hyvin ajankohtainen keskustelunaihe sekä teollisuusmaissa että kehitysmaissa. Teollisuusmaiden osalta keskustelu on suhteellisen pragmaattista, mutta kehitysmaiden tapauksessa siihen liittyy enemmän poliittisia ja sosiaalisia näkemyseroja. Markku...

This book explores the impact of public R&D funding on the economic performance of Finnish firms, especially in terms of productivity growth and job creation. Special attention is thereby paid to the potential influence exerted by two crucial characteristics of firms – their size and their...

This book reveals the importance of the forest-based and related industries of the European Union, which is a large economic entity, providing widespread benefits to the whole of the EU. Combined, these industries provide direct employment for over 4 million people, have a turnover of 400...

This report studies differences in the wage structure between part-time and full-time employees in the service sector in 1990-2006. Using wage data from the registers of the Confederation of Finnish Industries, the report describes and compares wage distributions and their changes in the service...

Available statistics tell us little about the economic consequences of increasing global dispersion of production processes. In order to shed light on the issue, we perform grass roots detective work to uncover the geography of value added in the case of a Nokia N95 smartphone circa 2007. The...