Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/44568 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
ETLA Discussion Papers No. 1195
Publisher: 
The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This descriptive paper analyses structural characteristics of Finnish university departments (FIDs) and benchmarks them against foreign university departments from Scandinavia, the UK and the US (FODs). In the first place the study aims to reveal information on differences in department size. In addition, the analysis pays attention to internationalization, study times and the level of business activities at different university departments. The paper is based on new survey data that distinguish between the national rankings of the university departments and between the department fields. The first finding shows that FIDs are small. This finding seems to hold irrespective of the department field. The second finding shows that the best departments tend to be bigger than the rest. The third result shows that FIDs have low shares of foreign students. Finally the results show that the faculty of Finnish university departments is relatively well involved in business creation.
Subjects: 
Universities
University departments
Research
Education
Innovation
JEL: 
I23
I28
O31
O38
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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