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...

Osana Sitran ympäristöohjelmaa Sitra ja kauppa- ja teollisuusministeriö tilasivat Etlatieto Oy:ltä selvitystyön kotimaisen ympäristöliiketoiminnan määrittämiseksi ja tilastoinnin kehittämiseksi. Hankkeen tavoitteena on luoda valtakunnallinen seurantajärjestelmä, jolla arvioidaan...

Osana Sitran Ympäristöohjelmaa Sitra tilasi Etlatieto Oy:ltä selvityksen pääomasijoittamisesta ympäristöliiketoimintaan ja sen tilastoinnin kehittämisestä. Aiemmin ohjemassa on tehty selvitys Suomen ympäristöliiketoiminnasta ja sen tilastoinnin kehittämisestä....

We determine the emergence of the Porter Hypothesis in a large oligopoly setting where the industry-wide adoption of green technologies is endogenously determined as a result of competition among coalitions. We examine a setting where the initial technology is polluting, firms decide whether to...

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) once again became a newsworthy topic in the US media, this time during the contested Spring 2008 Democratic primary for the US presidency, particularly from campaign talking-points originating within Midwestern Rust-Belt states. Although the merits...

As the French government has adopted a large broadband development strategy mainly trough FTTH technologies, estimating the demand for broadband is necessary from a policy recommendation perspective. This paper uses data from a nationwide survey conducted yearly between 2007 and 2017 to analyze...

In this Perspective, I provide more evidence demonstrating the illegitimacy of the OECD's per-capita broadband rankings as a reliable measure of relative performance for broadband adoption. Using the OECD's own data on per-capita adoption and household adoption across the OECD, numerous examples...

The Sustainable Society Index describes social progress along three dimensions: human, environmental and economic. Being a composite indicator, its aim is to be a comprehensive and quantitative measure of sustainability and a quality of life of a nation. The objective of this paper is to offer a...

Recreational services are demanded because they generate benefits. The recreational benefits connected with a destination can be valued based on visitor preferences, which can aid in the formulation of an appropriate Natural Resource Management policy. Environmental and natural resource...

In this paper, we study transmission of traits through generations in multifactorial inheritance models with sex- and time-dependent heritability. We further analyze the implications of these models under heavy-tailedness of traits' distributions. Among other results, we show that in the case of...