Finland As A Knowledge Economy

Author : Kimmo Halme,Vesa Salminen
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464801945

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Finland as a Knowledge Economy 2.0 by Kimmo Halme,Vesa Salminen Pdf

Finland is known for its consistent progress in the economy and competitiveness, as well as the egalitarian society underneath it. Yet, the challenges experienced by Finland in the beginning of the 20th century were similar to those experienced by many countries today. Finland emerged as an independent nation in the midst of international economic and political turbulence. In spite of its remoteness, relative scarcity of natural resources, smallness of the home market and recent history characterized by wars and social cleavages, Finland transformed itself from an agriculture-based economy in the 1950’s into one of the leading innovation-driven, knowledge-based economies and high-tech producers in the twenty-first century. The development was rapid, and involved determined action and sometimes drastic decisions by the government and other key actors. Today, at the end of 2013, Finland is facing new types of challenges both domestically and internationally in efforts to maintain its societal sustainability and economic competitiveness. Finland Knowledge Economy 2.0 presents some of the key policies, elements, initiatives and decisions behind Finland’s path into the Knowledge Economy of today. The authors hope to provide the readers inspiration, new ideas, and novel insights. Hopefully some of the lessons learned may prove valuable in another context. Based on this account of the development of Finnish Knowledge Economy, the authors have identified six areas of lessons, each described in detail in respective chapters. The book should not be seen as a scientific all encompassing study, but rather as a “Knowledge Economy cook-book”, with practical cases, links and insights provided for further exploration.

Author : Carl J. Dahlman,J. T. Routti,Pekka Ylä-Anttila
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821369113

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Finland as a Knowledge Economy by Carl J. Dahlman,J. T. Routti,Pekka Ylä-Anttila Pdf

Knowledge is fueling economic growth and social development in every region of the world. This book showcases the Finnish experience in the 1990s as an example of how knowledge can become the driving force in economic transformation and growth.

Author : Gerd Schienstock
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1843769816

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Embracing the Knowledge Economy by Gerd Schienstock Pdf

In an astonishingly short period of time, Finland has developed into one of the world's leading knowledge societies whilst retaining a comprehensive welfare state. The book traces this rapid transformation from a resource-based to a knowledge-based society. The authors describe the country's strengths and weaknesses in the new economy and demonstrate how Finland has been able to catch-up with the leading industrial countries by exploiting new techno-organizational opportunities. Experts from different fields provide rich empirical material on Finnish industries, firms, regions and institutions, and the role they have played in the transformation process. The book also details the business and economic restructuring which was required, and explores new trends in the country's science, technology and innovation policy.

Author : Carl J. Dahlman,Jorma Routti,Pekka Yl??-Anttila
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:931668479

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Finland as a Knowledge Economy by Carl J. Dahlman,Jorma Routti,Pekka Yl??-Anttila Pdf

In the early 1990s, Finland went through watershed developments due to a severe economic recession, during which unemployment rates rose from around 2 percent to over 15 percent and GDP decreased by more than 10 percent. However, in one decade Finland became the most ICT-specialized economy in the world. Three times it has ranked number 1 in the World Economic Forum's (WEF) competitiveness index. It also ranked highest in the OECD's Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) studies of learning skills and educational attainment. This paper includes the following headings: introduction; Finland's knowledge economy today; structural changes in the Finnish economy - from agriculture to high-tech; changes in the economic and institutional regimes; innovation and education strategies and policies in Finland; sectoral perspectives on the Finnish knowledge economy -- from forest-related industries to ICT; challenges to the Finnish knowledge economy -- what's ahead; and conclusions and lessons from Finland's knowledge economy for other economies.

Author : Susanne Taron
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783638602617

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Towards a European knowledge-based economy: the evolutionary case of Finland by Susanne Taron Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: 1,0, University of Münster (Political Science), course: European Economic Policies, 19 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Throughout the course of the 1990s, Finland underwent a tremendous economic transformation unrivaled by any other European or OECD country in the post-World War II era. In less than a decade Finland went from being perhaps one of the least knowledge-based economies to becoming the sole most embraced one, subsequently heralding it to be a model example of not only Europe’s but the world’s ‘new economy’. During the twentieth-first century, Finland has three times to date ranked number one in the World’s Economic Forum’s (WEF) Competitiveness Index, alongside achieving an astonishing close second to Sweden in the World Bank’s Knowledge Economic Index (KEI). On these grounds, Finland’s recent development towards a knowledge-based economy has indeed captured the international spotlight, and justly the attention of economic policy-makers across the world. To this day in age, knowledge has irrefutably become the driving force behind economic growth and social development, with exogenous factors particularly that of globalization playing enormous roles in the acceleration of the diffusion and the application of knowledge. Perhaps, not better put then in the trivial words of Bill Clinton “in today’s knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn,”5such words do certainly substantiate the importance of knowledge and innovation in today’s ‘new economy’. Thus is seems, successful economies and societies will be those who can adapt to the rapid demands of globalization, where the need of countries to be more flexible, creative, innovative, and welcoming to the winds of change, have been more critical than it has ever been before. Advancement in information and communication technologies (ICTs) has often been seen as one method of achieving a more knowledge-based economy, as development in ICTs seem to provide new opportunities in product specialization, improved productivity, and sustainable growth.

Author : Carl J. Dahlman,Anuja Utz
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780821362082

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India and the Knowledge Economy by Carl J. Dahlman,Anuja Utz Pdf

"In the global knowledge economy of the twenty-first century, India's development policy challenges will require it to use knowledge more effectively to raise the productivity of agriculture, industry, and services and reduce poverty. India has made tremendous strides in its economic and social development in the past two decades. Its impressive growth in recent years-8.2 percent in 2003-can be attributed to the far-reaching reforms embarked on in 1991 and to opening the economy to global competition. In addition, India can count on a number of strengths as it strives to transform itself into a knowledge-based economy-availability of skilled human capital, a democratic system, widespread use of English, macroeconomic stability, a dynamic private sector, institutions of a free market economy; a local market that is one of the largest in the world; a well-developed financial sector; and a broad and diversified science and technology infrastructure, and global niches in IT. But India can do more-much more-to leverage its strengths and grasp today's opportunities. India and the Knowledge Economy assesses India's progress in becoming a knowledge economy and suggests actions to strengthen the economic and institutional regime, develop educated and skilled workers, create an efficient innovation system, and build a dynamic information infrastructure. It highlights that to get the greatest benefits from the knowledge revolution, India will need to press on with the economic reform agenda that it put into motion a decade ago and continue to implement the various policy and institutional changes needed to accelerate growth. In so doing, it will be able to improve its international competitivenessand join the ranks of countries that are making a successful transition to the knowledge economy."

Author : Philip Cooke,Andrea Piccaluga
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134215294

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Regional Development in the Knowledge Economy by Philip Cooke,Andrea Piccaluga Pdf

International contributors provide the first examination of the growing subject of regional knowledge-economy development. Illustrated by data and 'stylized' accounts, the international contributors chart the evolution of knowledge economies, questioning the way in which they work and criticize accepted theories and inform how places can cope in the knowledge economy. Based in concept on Cooke's Knowledge Economies (Routledge, 2002), Regional Development in the Knowledge Economy is a well-grounded work exploring this increasingly important theme with relevance to innovation systems and related economic development literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789087906245

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Education and the Knowledge-Based Economy in Europe by Anonim Pdf

This book addresses the recent impact of the ‘knowledge-based economy’ as an economic ‘imaginary’ and as a set of real economic developments on education, and especially higher education in Europe, including educational strategies and policies such as those of the Bologna process on a European scale.

Author : Sami Moisio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317587774

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Geopolitics of the Knowledge-Based Economy by Sami Moisio Pdf

We live in the era of the knowledge-based economy, and this has major implications for the ways in which states, cities and even supranational political units are spatially planned, governed and developed. In this book, Sami Moisio delves deeply into the links between the knowledge-based economy and geopolitics, examining a wide range of themes, including city geopolitics and the university as a geopolitical site. Overall, this work shows that knowledge-based "economization" can be understood as a geopolitical process that produces territories of wealth, security, power and belonging. This book will prove enlightening to students, researchers and policymakers in the fields of human geography, urban studies, spatial planning, political science and international relations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1010544562

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OECD Reviews of Innovation Policy: Finland 2017 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kimmo Halme,Ilari Lindy,Kalle A. Piirainen,Vesa Salminen,Justine White
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464801952

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Finland as a Knowledge Economy 2.0 by Kimmo Halme,Ilari Lindy,Kalle A. Piirainen,Vesa Salminen,Justine White Pdf

Finland has transformed itself from an agriculture-based economy into one of the leading knowledge-based economies. Aiming to provide valuable lessons for other countries, the book presents key policies, elements, initiatives and decisions behind Finland s transformation into the Knowledge Economy of today.

Author : Knut Ingar Westeren
Publisher : Edward Elgar Pub
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0857937715

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Foundations of the Knowledge Economy by Knut Ingar Westeren Pdf

'This book's chapters provide a versatile collection of case studies that raise important and interesting questions. . . the book introduces novel perspectives and indicates new approaches to understanding the modern economy and the role of knowledge in the ever-changing market process. It is thought provoking and even enlightening, and provides an interesting basis for further research to support entrepreneurship and public policy.' - Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy This book presents new evidence concerning the influential role of context and institutions on the relations between knowledge, innovation, clusters and learning. from a truly international perspective, the expert contributors capture the most interesting and relevant aspects of knowledge economy.

Author : Pasi Pyöriä
Publisher : University of Tampere
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Information society
ISBN : 9789514463846

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Knowledge Workers in the Information Society by Pasi Pyöriä Pdf

Offers a critical perspective on knowledge work, arguing that the rise of knowledge work is not only an economic or managerial issue, it reflects a major social and cultural transformation comparable to the Industrial Revolution. Sheds light on the everyday realities of knowledge work, with empirical evidence from Finland.

Author : Margaret C. Jacob
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107661004

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The First Knowledge Economy by Margaret C. Jacob Pdf

Ever since the Industrial Revolution debate has raged about the sources of the new, sustained western prosperity. Margaret Jacob here argues persuasively for the critical importance of knowledge in Europe's economic transformation during the period from 1750 to 1850, first in Britain and then in selected parts of northern and western Europe. This is a new history of economic development in which minds, books, lectures and education become central. She shows how, armed with knowledge and know-how and inspired by the desire to get rich, entrepreneurs emerged within an industrial culture wedded to scientific knowledge and technology. She charts how, across a series of industries and nations, innovative engineers and entrepreneurs sought to make sense and a profit out of the world around them. Skilled hands matched minds steeped in the knowledge systems new to the eighteenth century to transform the economic destiny of western Europe.

Author : David Rooney,Greg Hearn,Abraham Ninan
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781845426842

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Handbook on the Knowledge Economy by David Rooney,Greg Hearn,Abraham Ninan Pdf

This fascinating Handbook defines how knowledge contributes to social and economic life, and vice versa. It considers the five areas critical to acquiring a comprehensive understanding of the knowledge economy: the nature of the knowledge economy; social, cooperative, cultural, creative, ethical and intellectual capital; knowledge and innovation systems; policy analysis for knowledge-based economies; and knowledge management. In presenting the outcomes of an important body of research, the Handbook enables knowledge policy and management practitioners to be more systematically guided in their thinking and actions. The contributors cover a wide disciplinary spectrum in an accessible way, presenting concise, to-the-point discussions of critical concepts and practices that will enable practitioners to make effective research, managerial and policy decisions. They also highlight important new areas of concern to knowledge economies such as wisdom, ethics, language and creative economies that are largely overlooked. Distinguished by a combination of practical relevance and analytical rigour, this Handbook provides new insights into the basic mechanisms that constitute a knowledge economy and society, and will be invaluable to practitioners and academics in diverse areas of interest, including: knowledge management, innovation management, knowledge policy, social epistemology, and development studies.