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Innovations and industrial renewal in Finland-Back to basics in innovation studies

This paper presents an ongoing research project, which takes individual innovations as the point of departure for an in-depth and comprehensive analysis of recent industrial renewal processes in Finland. For this purpose we are constructing a database of some 2000 innovations commercialised during the 1980s and 1990s. We are also collecting detailed data on the innovations through a mail survey. We discuss theoretical and methodological approaches, which have shaped the design of the project, the pros and cons of our novel methodological approach, and present the content of the database. Furthermore, we envision some avenues for in-depth analyses of industrial renewal based on our data. First results of the project are due in autumn 1999.