Finland

Transferring Science-based Technologies to Industry – Does Nanotechnology Make a Difference?

Palmberg, Christopher - Pajarinen, Mika - Nikulainen, Tuomo

Nanotechnology has been touted as a general purpose technology (GPT) and engine of growth for the 21th century, following in the footsteps of ICT. Nanotechnology is still in an early phase of development, it is scientist driven and thus largely exogenous to the economy at present. In Finland the interest towards nanotechnology is also growing.

Pääomasijoitukset ympäristöalalla ja tilastollisen seurannan kehittäminen

Hernesniemi, Hannu - Viitamo, Esa

As part of its environmental programme The Finnish National Fund for Research and Development (Sitra) ordered a report from Etlatieto about the status of venture capital (VC) investment in environmental industries including a plan for development of its statistics. A similar report on Finland`s environmental sector and plan for its monitoring has previously been produced

Industrial Renewal and Growth through Nanotechnology ? – An Overview with Focus on Finland

Palmberg, Christopher - Nikulainen, Tuomo

Hardly any other field has received so much public R&D investments globally in such a short time as nanotechnology. Nanotechnology can be considered as an umbrella term for R&D at the nanometer scale (1-100 nm) where unique phenomena enable novel applications. The interest given to nanotechnology is largely due to its perceived, and partly also

Age, Technology and Labour Costs

Daveri, Francesco - Maliranta, Mika

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 Finland. Our main result is that exposure to rapid technological

The Specificities of Finnish Industrial Policy – Challenges and Initiatives at the Turn of the Century

Palmberg, Christopher - Ylä-Anttila, Pekka

The Finnish experience in the 1990s represents one of the few examples of how knowledge can become the driving force in economic growth and transformation. The country’s industrial structure that was previously raw material-, energy-, and capital-intensive changed in less than a decade to primarily a knowledge-intensive on. During the first year of the 21st

Open Source in Finnish Software Companies

Seppä, Arto

This paper explores survey data focusing on open source software supply collected from 170 Finnish software firms using descriptive statistical analysis. The first half of the report contains general data about software companies and the differences between proprietary and open source firms. The second half focuses on open source firms. A subject of analysis are