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标题：Restarting the Growth Engine in Finland
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作者：Henrik Braconier
期刊名称：Economics Department Working Papers / OECD
印刷版ISSN：0259-4633
出版年度：2012
卷号：2012
DOI：10.1787/5k92zp04tlr6-en
出版社：Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
摘要：Impressive productivity performance during the last decades has weakened since 2007, reflecting the 2008-09 recession but also a poor performance in important sectors, like the information and communication technology sector. Reforms to raise long term productivity growth need to be pursued. Current project-based R&D-support and business subsidies seem inefficient and should be scaled back and remaining support should focus on addressing externalities in terms of the creation of high productive jobs and R&D spillovers. A R&D tax credit could provide higher flexibility, equity and efficiency than current targeted support. Capital taxation should be streamlined to improve incentives for entrepreneurship and growth. The performance of the higher education system could be improved through allocating more R&D funding and teaching resources based on quality rather than block grants. Productivity performance could be enhanced by exposing sectors like health provision, network industries and retailing to more competition through lowering government dominance in provision and loosening planning restrictions. This Working Paper relates to the 2012 OECD Economic Survey of Finland (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/finland).
关键词：entrepreneurship; ICT; retailing; structural change; competition; growth; R&D; Finland; productivity