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Different types of venture capital investors and value-added to high-tech portfolio firms

Luukkonen, Terttu - 2008

This paper examines the knowhow in strategic business areas that venture capital companies and organizations impart to their portfolio firms in early-stage high-tech enterprises and the mechanisms they use to impart this knowledge. The paper considers three types of investors, independent,...

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Domestic R&D employment effects of offshoring R&D tasks: Some empirical evidence from Finland

Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki; Deschryvere, Matthias - 2008

This study empirically explores whether R&D offshoring affects the domestic R&D employment at the firm level. Overall, the Finnish survey data suggest that the impact of R&D internationalization on domestic R&D employment depends on the mode of internationalization (in-house offshoring vs....

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Verkostoista alueellista elinvoimaa? Havaintoja yrityskyselystä

Pajarinen, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri - 2008

North Savo, North Karelia/Kainuu, Central Finland and Lapland/Northern Ostrobothnia. Connections to other firms is the most …

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Ikääntyneiden varallisuus ja sen muuttaminen kulutukseksi

Määttänen, Niku; Valkonen, Tarmo - 2008

We study the extent to which retired households in Finland could supplement their mandatory pension benefits by … stream. In addition, we use a life cycle consumption-savings model to study which kind of households' in Finland would …

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Palkkaerot palvelussia: Palvelualojen osa- ja kokoaikaisten työntekijöiden palkkarakenteen ja -kehityksen tarkastelua

Jokinen, Juha-Pekka - 2010

This report studies differences in the wage structure between part-time and full-time employees in the service sector in 1990-2006. Using wage data from the registers of the Confederation of Finnish Industries, the report describes and compares wage distributions and their changes in the service...

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Labour force paths as industry lingages: A perspective on clusters and industry life cycles

Maliranta, Mika; Nikulainen, Tuomo - 2008

makes use of longitudinal employer-employee data that cover the whole working age population in Finland. Firstly, we find …

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Public R&D funding and entrepreneurial innovation

Koski, Heli - 2008

This study does not find any significant direct relationship between the public R&D funding and the firms' innovation output. The firms obtaining the public R&D support were not performing significantly better, on average, than others. However, we find evidence that the public R&D finance has...

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Mapping of the PhDs in the private sector: A literature review

Stén, Susanna - 2008

This review maps out the labour market situation of PhDs employed in the private sector. To begin with, the theoretical motives for employing PhDs and the supporting empirical evidence are examined. The potential benefits of companies from employing PhDs can be divided into productivity and...

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The Finnish paradox: The curious absence of high-growth entrepreneurship in Finland

Autio, Erkko - 2009

This paper looks at how well Finland performs in high growth entrepreneurship and uses data from the Global … Entrepreneurship monitor to benchmark Finland against other European countries. It is found that Finland's prevalence rate of high … weak performance in high-growth entrepreneurship goes hand in hand with Finland being a world leader in per capita …

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Sources of increased wage differentials in the Finnish private sector

Asplund, Rita - 2009

This paper explores the sources underlying the marked increase in the dispersion of private-sector wages in Finland …

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