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• Title:
  Innovation and Regional Socio-Economic Development - Evidence from the Finnish Local Administrative Units
• Creator:
  Makkonen, Teemu
• Description:
  It is often argued that innovation plays a key role in the economic growth of regions. Therefore, the impacts of innovation on the socio-economic development of regions have been widely discussed in previous studies, but with divergent areal coverage, methods, and datasets. As a point for departure, these relationships redrawn from international literature are tested here with a single dataset from Finnish local administrative units and with coherent methods. As there does not seem to be a generally accepted indicator for innovation which can claim to be superior, despite the growing literature on the subject, research and development (R&D), and patent statistics are used in this paper to represent innovation activity. The significant, strong, and positive relationship between innovation and traditional socio-economic variables is verified using Finnish regions.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Date:
  2011.05.19
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series; No. 15 (2011): June; 27–42;
  Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series; Nr 15 (2011): June; 27–42;
  2083-8298;
  1732-4254
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/BGSS/article/view/v10089-011-0002-0/1540
• Subject:
  Finland;
  regional socio-economic development;
  innovation;
  research and development;
  patents
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/BGSS/article/view/v10089-011-0002-0
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
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  seek permission
• Type:
  text