The public examination of M.Sc. Jaana Rahko’s doctoral dissertation “Essays on R&D, knowledge spillovers and firm performance” will be held on Friday 14 October at 12 o´clock in auditorium Kurten (C203, Tervahovi). The field of dissertation is economics.

Professor Otto Toivanen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) will act as opponent and Professor Hannu Piekkola as custos. The examination will be held in Finnish.

Public display (“nailing”) will be held on Tuesday 4 October at 15.00 o’clock (Tervahovi). After that the dissertation is available online:

http://www.uwasa.fi/fi/research/publications/orders/database/?sarja=4