Discussion Papers

The information on the impact of mobility on society is plenty but scattered. A good understanding of the impact of mobility requires first an understanding of what mobility actually means. This paper lists aspects of mobility that can contribute to a useful conceptualisation. It is found that in its core mobility is about connectivity of

We use the databases of Statistics Finland to explore the supply of public support for firms in Finland during the years 2000–2008. Particularly, this report provides a de-scriptive analysis of complementarities and repetitiousness of public support from the perspective of the applying firms. We observe that both the order of magnitude of public resources allocated

Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan Suomen kansantalouden tulevaa kehi-tystä, jos ja kun nykyiseen taantumaan liittyy myös rakennekriisi. Sen mukaan talou-den potentiaalisen tuotannon ura saattaa sekä taittua matalammalle tasolle että kasvaa sen jälkeen hitaampaa vauhtia kuin ennen. Näitä kehitysuria arvioidaan toimialoittai-sen tarkastelun avulla. Huomiota kiinnitetään talouspolitiikan mitoituksen ja julkisen velkaantumisen sekä työmarkkinatasapainon tarkasteluun. Tulosten mukaan julkisen sektorin velkakehitys riippuu

This paper explores performance measurement in incentive plans. Based on theory, we argue that differences in the nature of jobs between blue- and white-collar employees lead to differences in incentive systems. We find that performance measurement for white-collar workers is broader in terms of the performance measures, the organizational level of performance measurement and the

This paper discusses the outcomes of university-industry interaction from the perspective of an individual academic researcher. Two contributions are made to the extant literature. First, in the existing research, the focus has mostly been on outcomes such as university-based patenting, licensing revenues, invention disclosures to technology transfer offices, and academic entrepreneurship. This narrow focus has

Even with globalization, industrial clusters are maintaining their importance in today’s economy. With the decomposition of production we find that clusters are becoming focused on specific industries and stages of production. This paper analyzes two peripheral western countries, Finland and Israel, which saw success in their ICT clusters and wanted to duplicate this success building