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This research project studies the effects of business subsidies intended to support companies during COVID-19 pandemic. It compares the goals of these subsidiaries to their performance, and thereby their success. It also studies the effects of COVID-19 business support
The aim of this research project is to analyse the resilience of various companies and industries, i.e., their crisis resistance, the factors influencing it, and their ability to recover from a crisis. In addition, the project will look at
In Europe, the direction of bargaining on terms of employment has been from centralised negotiation systems towards more decentralised systems, which means that negotiations are moving closer to company-specific bargaining at the company level. However, Finland’s bargaining system has
This research project aims to produce new, policy‐relevant information on factors that enhance the attractiveness of Finland to productive companies and talented individuals. Maintaining the Finnish welfare state requires robust economic growth. To achieve this, Finland needs to increase
The Finnish economy has experienced slow economic growth since the financial crisis in 2008. The business landscape and innovation patterns have changed in the past decade due to new sustainability goals arising from climate change and tightened competition for
The aim of this research project is to produce information about the framework system. The project draws up a vision of what kind of development needs can be seen in Finland's framework system and what concrete actions could be
This research project will create a situational picture of the effects of foreign investment on strategic and critical intangible assets. The results of the project will help to outline how strategic/critical intangible capital can be defined, what effects foreign
The main goal of this research project is to produce research data on how the actions of different policies affect productivity. It is particularly important to better understand the effects of those policy measures that are central to future
The number of production investments in relation to the size of the economy has fallen in Finland since the 1990s. One explanatory factor is the reduction of the size of the business sector as the share of the business
In February 2020, the European Commission presented its Communication reviewing the EU’s Economic gov-ernance framework. The revision of the framework will be undertaken by the EU’s Member States. The re-view includes an assessment of how the EU’s fiscal rules
During the last five years e.g. Brexit, COVID-19 crisis and trade wars have probably affected Finnish companies' international trade and barriers to trade. For this reason, Finland does not currently have a recent understanding of the barriers to trade
Combatting climate change will require substantial productive investments around the world. The carbon neutral transition requires both emission reductions in all sectors and the strengthening of carbon sinks. A carbon neutral transition will cause structural changes in production, distribution,
