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From Path-Dependency to Knowledge-Based Economy - Analysing the Finnish ICT Miracle -

From Path-Dependency to Knowledge-Based Economy - Analysing the Finnish ICT Miracle -

Lubjuhn, Patrick

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General ComputersGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 3640667522
ISBN13: 9783640667529
Publisher: Grin Verlag
Published: Aug 6 2010
Pages: 60
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.14 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - Topic: Globalization, Political Economics, grade: 1,7, University of Münster, course: European Economic Policy Course, language: English, abstract: The fact that Finland is far away from the centres of European economic activities, for example the so-called blue banana, the Sunbelt and the Industrial axe, its relative economic success, especially in the field of information and communication technologies (ICT) makes it so interesting to analyse what is so characteristic for the Finish-ICT Miracle, as Paija (2001) has called it. During the last decade, Finland has become one of the world's most successful technology-intensive countries, finding itself in the front rank of the world's digital economies. In a decade, Finland went from being one of the least information and communication technologies specialized countries to become the single most specialized one. Currently the Finnish ICT sector, with Nokia as its locomotive, consists of some 6 thousand firms and accounts for approximately 10 percent of Finland's GDP (Rouvinen & Antilla 2003, p.87) and therefore have put Finland on the map of global economies. Determining for this raise of Finland is the development of a new growth path in this small Nordic country. Finland has managed to transform itself from a resource-based into a knowledge-based economy in a rather short period of time, especially without any major cutbacks in his highly developed welfare state system. The essential point of analysis in my essay deals with the question, how Finland managed to become one of the most successful ICT-countries in the world. How was it possible for this small Nordic country to go through a structural change from forestry to ICT? Nowadays, about 6000 firms (mostly small and medium-sized) and 200 electronics manufacturing services companies make up the so called 'ICT cluster'. Some 350 of them are first-tier suppliers to Nokia, and represent the 'Nokia network' (D

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