08.07.2020 Other publications Publications Ahead of the game, but for how long? – Insights from a benchmarking study on Finland’s cybersecurity landscape Mattila JuriSeppälä Timo For seven years, the annual Digibarometer study has evaluated how well individual countries utilize digitalization and ranked them accordingly.
03.07.2020 Academic Publications Publications Data Sharing in Pharmaceutical Supply Chains – Case European Medicines Verification System Levänen LauraHalminen OlliTenhunen HenniSeppälä Timo We study the perceived value derived from data sharing activities by the representatives of a Nordic pharmaceutical company in
01.07.2020 Publications Working Papers 81 Killers on the Road of Emerging Start-ups – Implications for Market Entry and Venture Capital Financing Koski HeliKässi OttoBraesemann Fabian This paper empirically studies the effect of acquisitions made by the large US-based technology companies on the entry dynamics
30.06.2020 Publications Working Papers 80 Nowcasting Industrial Production Using Uncoventional Data Sources Fornaro Paolo In this work, we rely on unconventional data sources to nowcast the year-on-year growth rate of Finnish industrial production,
23.06.2020 Briefs Publications 89 Solving Structural Competition Problems Require Changes in EU Merger Regulation Koski Heli EU competition law does not effectively address or make it possible to resolve some of the structural competition problems
17.06.2020 Publications Reports 105 The Low-carbon Roadmap of the Finnish Forest Industries: An Economic Impact Assessment Lintunen JussiAli-Yrkkö JyrkiKulvik Martti In this paper, we analyse the economic impacts of the low-carbon roadmap made for the Finnish forest industries. The
11.06.2020 Other publications Publications Digibarometer 2020 Mattila JuriMäkäräinen KallePajarinen MikaSeppälä TimoAli-Yrkkö JyrkiTervo Elias Executive summary: Finland in the second place Finland ranks second in Digibarometer 2020, which compares 22 countries with a
10.06.2020 Other publications Publications Labour Policy and Employment Rate: Conclusions Based on Research Alasalmi JuhoBusk HennaKauhanen AnttiLeinonen TainaSolovieva SvetlanaValkonen TarmoViikari-Juntura Eira The report consists of a literature review on employment effects of different labour market policies. The policy areas dealt
08.06.2020 Publications Reports 104 Energy and Electricity Consumption of the ICT-sector in Finland Hiekkanen KariSeppälä TimoYlhäinen Ilkka The role of the digital technologies are becoming increasingly important in our day-to-day life. Digital technologies have become part
02.06.2020 Publications Reports 103 Inward Foreign Direct Investment Promotion – A Review of Policy Rationales and Impacts Gustafsson RobinAalto Eero We review the extant research on the government inward foreign direct investment (FDI) policy interventions, concentrating on investment promotion
27.05.2020 Other publications Publications Sharpening EU Sanctions Policy for a Geopolitical Era Helwig NiklasJokela JuhaPortela Clara (Eds.)Aula IlariBerg-Andersson BirgittaLehmus MarkkuPesu MattiSinkkonen Ville The European Union (EU) increasingly uses sanctions in order to respond to breaches of international norms and adverse security
18.05.2020 Academic Publications Publications The Finnish Pension System and Its Future Challenges Valkonen Tarmo The Finnish pension system has succeeded in gaining high social, and reasonable financial sustainability. The balance between reaching the
18.05.2020 Publications Reports 102 Service Exports and Public Funding Ali-Yrkkö JyrkiKuusi TeroPajarinen MikaWang Maria In this paper, we study service exports by Finnish companies, with a special focus on their EU trade. We
06.05.2020 Publications Reports 101 Methods to Evaluate Agglomeration Effects in Transport System appraisal Frameworks Haapamäki TainaKauhanen AnttiLaakso SeppoMetsäranta HeikkiOjanperä MariannaRiukula KristaVäänänen Touko The spatial concentration of production and population to urban areas is an important theme in societal discussion. The spatial
28.04.2020 Academic Publications Publications Commercial Adoption of AI in the Healthcare Sector: An Exploratory Analysis of S&P500 Companies Mucha TomaszHalminen OlliTenhunen HenniSeppälä Timo The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies within the healthcare sector is growing. However, there are differences in the
24.04.2020 Academic Publications Publications Determinants of Prescription Opioid Use: Population‐based Evidence from Finland Böckerman PetriHaapanen MikaHakulinen ChristianKarhunen HannuMaczulskij Terhi Background and aims Previous studies have shown that prescription opioid use is more common in socio-economically disadvantaged communities in
23.04.2020 Publications Working Papers 79 Construction Value Chains and Their Productivity Growth Kuusi TeroJunnonen Juha-MattiKulvik Martti The construction industry has suffered from low growth in recent decades. Motivated by the economic importance of the industry,
23.04.2020 Publications Working Papers 78 Digitalization and Platforms in Agriculture: Organizations, Power Asymmetry, and Collective Action Solutions Kenney MartinSerhan HiamTrystram Gilles Technologies such as digitally-equipped agricultural equipment, drones, image recognition, sensors, robots and artificial intelligence are being rapidly adopted throughout
22.04.2020 Other publications Publications The Competitiveness of the Construction Industry and the Quality of Construction in Finland Ahonen AriJunnonen Juha-MattiPuhto JukkaAli-Yrkkö JyrkiAvela AleksiKulvik MarttiKuusi TeroMäkäräinen Kalle This research project focuses on the competitiveness and product quality of the Finnish construction sector. The project is based
22.04.2020 Briefs Publications 88 Critical Metals – Competitiveness and Security of Supply Hernesniemi Hannu The USA, the EU and Finland have woken up to the fact that certain metals are critical in crises.
08.04.2020 Publications Reports 100 Export Promotion Rationales and Impacts – A Review Aalto EeroGustafsson Robin We review the extant research on the government export promotion policy interventions, concentrating on export promotion agencies (EPA). Based
06.04.2020 Academic Publications Publications Measuring the Gender Wage Gap – A Methodological Note Maczulskij TerhiNyblom Jukka We propose to estimate the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition by a single-equation model augmented with interactions between the group membership and
30.03.2020 Other publications Publications Structural competitiveness Ylhäinen IlkkaAli-Yrkkö JyrkiFornaro PaoloPajarinen Mika This report introduces a new framework and index for structural competitiveness that can be used to analyze the preconditions
26.03.2020 Briefs Publications 87 Corona-shock Hits the Economy – To What Extent Finland Is Dependent on Global Value Chains? Ali-Yrkkö JyrkiKuusi Tero The spread of Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has caused distortions to global value chains. This report studies how dependent Finnish companies
