Regional development strategies should be based on sound assessment of regional business potentials and on possibilities to develop the defined potentials in order to gain competitive advantage on other regions. The assessment of the business potentials should include for example, an audit of...

Finland as a society is facing major challenges due to ageing and financial difficulties of municipalities. According to many authorities the Nordic welfare state has come to its end in Finland. Therefore, Finnish municipalities are forced to develop new methods to maintain the good quality of...

This paper illustrates how disruptive technologies primarily shaking the functioning of service sector are spreading to the manufacturing industries, and vice versa, and further change the roles of consumers and users. Software and data that first transformed the provision of services now lead...