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6.10.2023 | Finland and the other Nordic countries risk becoming underrepresented among the official staff in EU institutions. Concerns were raised about the issue in a report published on 6 October comparing the measures taken by certain Member States to promote their citizens’ careers in the EU. According to the report, national efforts alone will not be enough to rectify the situation over the short or medium term.

28.2.2023 | According to a study published on 28 February, intensifying great power competition increasingly complicates the ability to respond to global challenges through multilateral cooperation. Finland can respond to this transformation by strengthening the EU’s foreign policy capacities and by examining the potential of informal avenues of cooperation as well as partnerships in the context of the Global South.

30.5.2022 | The misallocation of labour and capital in the Finnish business sector has increased in the 2000s, which has significantly retarded productivity growth. The concentration of labour to companies with lower productivity is a key factor in retarding growth. A more efficient allocation of labour could be influenced, for example, by dismantling incentive traps and increasing labour mobility and wage competition, states a recent study by Aalto University and ETLA Economic Research.

3.2.2022 | The global economic system has entered a new era of geoeconomic rivarly. Particularly the United States and China are using economic instruments to advance strategic agendas, which poses a difficult challenge to the European Union.

2.6.2022 | A new study argues that Russia has geared its scientific and technological knowhow towards the unfolding great power competition. During the last decade Russia has sought to restore its scientific and technological prowess through various new strategies, programs and plans in order to regain its sovereign status as a great power.

16.12.2020 | Based on the OECD Talent Attractiveness Index, Finland is an interesting target country for international students and entrepreneurs alike. That said, when it comes to attracting skilled workers, Finland lags far behind the other Nordic countries and the Netherlands. Finland should learn from the experiences of these and other successful comparison countries when developing measures to improve ...

Global energy sector transitions will have an impact on geopolitics Major energy trends indicate that a rapid energy transition may shift geopolitical balance until 2040 Energy has always been an essential part of geopolitics. Transitions in energ...

Global energy transitions and Russia’s energy influence in Finland This study argues that in a condition of a rapid energy transition Russia’s possibility to use energy trade as leverage diminishes. Therefore, a slow transition to a renewables-dom...

BETWEEN CHANGE AND CONTINUITY: Making Sense of America’s Evolving Global Engagement This report investigates the evolution of America’s global engagement. In particular, it examines both the longer-term trends and the more immediate dynamics that ...

12.12.2018 | Key changes in the Sino-Russian and US-Russian relationships can have significant consequences for the global balance of power and the international order at large. A report published today shows how vulnerable the recently deepened Sino-Russian relationship is as it represents a joint reaction towards the US hegemony rather than a deep strategic alliance.

29.10.2020 | The carbon tariffs planned by the EU may curb carbon leakage, but on closer inspection, they can prove problematic in many ways. According to a study published on 29 October, the EU’s carbon tariff project will face challenges in the coming years.

31.1.2018 | The report published today, 31 January, investigates the evolution of US global engagement and the longer-term trends and more immediate dynamics that affect the global role of the United States.

10.12.2020 | Government plan for analysis, assessment and research in support of decision-making 2021 2(15) Government plenary session 5 November 2020 GOVERNMENT PLAN FOR ANALYSIS, ASSESSMENT AND RESEARCH IN SUPPORT OF DECISION-MAKING Objectives of the plan Th...

24.10.2022 | Framing mission-oriented innovation policy 1. The purpose: Framing mission-oriented innovation policy 1 1.1 The Finnish context 2 1.2 The purpose of MOIP 3 2. The vehicle: Features of mission-oriented innovation 4 2.1 What is mission-oriented inno...

15.1.2018 | Immigrants in the Innovation Economy – Lessons from Austria, Canada, Denmark and the Netherlands January 2018 Publication series of the Government’s analysis, assessment and research activities 1/2018 Nina Rilla, Matthias Deschryvere, Juha Oksanen...

10.10.2016 | Government plan for analysis, assessment and research in support of decision making 2017 Government plenary session 22 September 2016 2(6) GOVERNMENT PLAN FOR ANALYSIS, ASSESSMENT AND RESEARCH IN SUPPORT OF DECISION MAKING 2017 Objectives of the p...

18.4.2016 | 1(7) GOVERNMENT PLAN FOR ANALYSIS, ASSESSMENT AND RESEARCH IN SUPPORT OF DECISION MAKING Objectives of the plan The objective of the Government plan for analysis, assessment and research in support of decision making is to establish a systematic o...

26.2.2019 | Increasing Recycling Sustainability in Finland Cost Analysis of the Methods of Increasing Recycling FINAL REPORT Joe Papineschi Maxine von Eye Camilla Durrant Tanguy Tomes 5th November 2018 Report for SYKE on behalf of Finnish Ministry of Environm...

15.2.2018 | Kalle A. Piirainen (ed.), Kimmo Halme, Tomas Åström, Neil Brown, Martin Wain, Kalle Nielsen, Xavier Potau, Helka Lamminkoski, Vesa Salminen, Janne Huovari, Henri Lahtinen, Hanna Koskela Erik Arnold, Patries Boekholt, Helene Urth How can the EU Fra...

9.2.2017 | Adam Stępień and Timo Koivurova Arctic Europe: Bringing together the EU Arctic Policy and Nordic cooperation February 2017 Publication series of the Government’s analysis, assessment and research activities 15/2017 1 DESCRIPTION Publisher and rele...