A stochastic frontier model is applied to firm level panel data from the Finnish ICT manufacturing sector to explore the role of R&D and technological progress in the outstanding productivity growth Finland demonstrated in the latter half of the 1990?s. The sample is representative of over 90 %...

Technical efficiency levels in Finnish ICT manufacturing are established by applying a stochastic frontier model and retrieving Method of Moments and Battese-Coelli efficiency measures to identify both permanent and time-varying efficiency levels, as well as determinants of inefficiency such as...

Technical change can affect existing products very rapidly and at an uneven pace depending on the type and on the age of an industry. In young and fast growing industries, the process of technological change usually entails a series of improvements in existing products that affect their...

This paper analyzes the evolution of industrial competitiveness in Sweden and Finland in a long-term perspective. The first part looks at the foundations for industrial take-off in Sweden, with some focus on the development of institutions for the creation and dissemination of the skills and...

The informatics industry (ISIC 30 – office, accounting and computing machinery) is one of the fastest growing sectors in manufacturing in the World and in Brazil, and receives special tax breaks in Brazil (the so called “Informatics Law”). We investigate this sector after its...

This article employs the Malmquist index, a data envelopment analysis-type nonparametric technique, to decompose productivity growth into technical efficiency and technological change for Taiwanese IC-design firms. The results indicate that the increase in R&D productivity is mainly attributed...

The paper explores the effect of firm size on the relation between intangible resources and companies' performance (ROA). The authors identify six types of intangibles: human resources and management capabilities, innovation and internal process capabilities and customer loyalty and networking...

A programming problem is introduced which calculates efficiency scores for two jointly produced products. These scores, as well as Malmquist total factor productivity indices, were calculated and reported for both the crop and livestock sectors for 27 countries. Our two-score method allows us to...

Counterfeiting activities target companies in various sectors, including digital technology companies, defined as companies that produce and/or commercialize at least one physical product that incorporates a digital technology, excluding the merchandising related to the company brands....

Many features of interest can be observed from metrics of user navigation, of site structure and of paths followed through the site. These metrics can be used for recognizing and predicting usability matters. This papers discusses models and techniques needed, and how they can be used for...