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Abstract: To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupation based measures of organisational change within firms. With these measures, we directly address the complementarities between ICT and organisational changes. Our results support the view that...
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The 1990s was a turbulent period for Finnish postgraduate education. The education system was reformed and the number of postgraduate students who graduated every year increased at a fast pace. In this thesis doctorate and licentiate degree holders as a group, as well as how their labour market...
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Is the process of workforce aging a burden or a blessing for the firm? Our paper seeks to answer this question by providing evidence on the age-productivity and age-earnings profiles for a sample of plants in three manufacturing industries (forest, industrial machinery and electronics) in...
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The study investigates, by using econometric evaluation methods, how the usage of Fin-pros (a public agency promoting internationalization of business) services impacts on the internation-alization and performance of small and medium-sized firms in Finland. We measure internationalization and...
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words, the larger the knowledge pool of an inventor entering (leaving) the firm, the more the firm’s innovation performance … innovation coopetition (i.e., collaboration with a firm’s competitors) is an important source of knowledge spillovers … to the mobility of individual inventors, or that the knowledge flows transmitted are sticky inventor-specific. In other …
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Radical innovations require risk-taking. However, it is hard to find an objective measure for innovation investments … that would take riskiness into account. In this paper, we investigate how a simple measure of firms’ innovation investments …. We then build a simple model where firms’ innovation activities and firm risk are interrelated. We use the model to …
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The importance of data and different sources of knowledge in the development of new services and products, and further … findings emphasize the role of a firms absorptive capacity and its ICT competence in data-based innovation. It seems that … customer involvement in innovation process positively relates to the production of new data-based products and services. The …
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This paper aims to identify factors that relate to scientists’ propensity to make commercially significant scientific discoveries (inventions) and to describe how these inventions are commercialized. Based on a large survey of academics active in different fields of science at U.S....
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organizations in the Finnish innovation and business support system. Finpro regards its mission to include increasingly a role of an … are typically highly internationalized, innovative and knowledge-based. They use, more likely than Finnish firms on …
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consider three factors that may affect the adoption decision : product complexity, architectural innovation and competency …
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