In the immediate future foreign labour will play an increasingly important role in the competitiveness of expertise-intensive firms and whole urban regions in Finland as has already happened in many other western countries in recent years. Due to high birth rates at the late 1940s and the early...

A surge in understanding the importance of innovation as a key competitive asset has in its wake also highlighted the potential to intentionally nurture environments and measures conducive for innovations to emerge and to create economic value, i.e. innovation policy. As innovation activities...