Information Society and Consensus Formation in Finland

Peter T. Knight () and Jorma Routti
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Jorma Routti: Creative Industries Management

Chapter Chapter 3 in National Strategies to Harness Information Technology, 2012, pp 77-106 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Finland, a Nordic country bordering Russia and Sweden with a territory the size of Germany but a population of only 5.4 million in 2011, managed in the 1990s a high-profile breakthrough to the forefront of the international information society. The case of Finland is interesting for two reasons. First, Finland transformed itself in a short period from a resource-intensive economy into a knowledge economy very much driven by the information and communications sector. Second, this transformation coincided with a major economic crisis in the early 1990s. Recovery from a deep recession and major structural transformation took place simultaneously.

Keywords: Knowledge Economy; Information Society; Information Society Development; Information Society Program; Economic Policy Management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-2086-6_3

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