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Even in the mid-twentieth century, Finland was in a backwardness situation, with the predominance of a forest economy and under the continuous siege of a great power such as the former Soviet Union. These conditions radically changed during the second half of the last century to position the Nordic country as one of the most competitive and innovative nations at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The Innovate State results from a strong hegemonic power of the Finnish industrial bourgeoisie within the Historic Bloc, with sufficient convening capacity through Gramscian institutions such as social democracy, cooperatives and education, to integrate the rest of the classes and social groups into a project of future around a society of innovation and learning. Toward a post-COVID-19 new World Order, the Innovate State could provide the clue to overcome the market failure through a Keynesian neoliberalism.
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Sánchez Ramírez, C.M. (2021). Finland: The Innovate State. In: Knowledge Capitalism and State Theory. Palgrave Insights into Apocalypse Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71411-6_4
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