The Information Society and the Welfare State: The Finnish Model

By M. Mau. 2004

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Education policies for raising student learning: the Finnish approach (2007, background): “In this respect, Finland is an example of a nation that has developed from a remote agrarian/industrial state in the 1950s to a model knowledge economy, using education as the key to economic and social development.”
Making Connections: Global Production Networks, Standards, and Embeddedness in the Mobile-Telecommunications Industry (2006, background): “As has already been shown, governmental, quasigovernmental, and nongovernmental institutions still play major roles in shaping the industry and influencing the strategies of corporate actors (Braithwaite and Drahos, 2000).”
Towards productive welfare? A comparative analysis of 23 OECD countries (2009, background): “Writing more broadly still, Castells and Himanen (2002) have argued that some welfare states have adapted their structures in light of the emerging informational society, but point to different models found in the two leading ‘informational societies’ – the USA and Finland.”