A central aspect of the industrial evolution in the advanced economies is the phenomenon called servitization. In general, the term servitization or product-service transition is used to highlight the change, where the tangible offering of a manufacturing firm is augmented with intangible...

The growth of services - leveraged by the servitization of manufacturing - stresses the urgency of novel approaches and metrics in assessing the performance of services. Building on the statistical and socio-economic paradigms, this paper outlines the microeconomic frame for the integrative...

As part of its environmental programme The Finnish National Fund for Research and Development (Sitra) ordered a report from Etlatieto about the status of venture capital (VC) investment in environmental industries including a plan for development of its statistics. A similar report on Finland`s...

Definition and Statistical Monitoring of Environmental Industry Increased Competitiveness for the Environmental Sector. Commissioned by The Finnish National Fund for Research and the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Etlatieto Ltd conducted a study to define environmental business activities and...

Well functioning markets is a prerequisite for economic and productivity growth. Promotion of competitive markets takes a high priority in the Finnish industrial policy, too. Notwithstanding, information on actual functioning of markets is relatively limited. This study aims to outline...

The globalisation of the competition, the simultaneous saturation of the markets and the complexity of the process technology have increased the importance of service inputs as determinants of competitiveness for the forest industry. At the same time new information technologies have substituted...