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Maczulskij, T. (2026). Immigration and firm innovation: Evidence from Finnish manufacturing. Research Policy, 55(10), 105603. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2026.105603

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🎙️ Welcome to Revise and Resubmit, the podcast where rigorous research meets the complicated, deeply human world it seeks to explain.

Imagine a factory in Finland. The machines keep their measured rhythm, familiar faces pass beneath familiar lights, and then someone new arrives. They bring a different language, a different history, perhaps even a different way of noticing what everyone else has stopped seeing. What changes when that person takes their place on the factory floor, in the laboratory, or around the design table? 🧩💡

Today, we explore “Immigration and Firm Innovation: Evidence from Finnish Manufacturing” by Terhi Maczulskij, published online on 3 September 2026 and scheduled to appear in Volume 55, Issue 10 in December 2026.

Drawing on uniquely matched Finnish data from 2000 to 2016, the study connects employees’ immigration status with firms’ patents, product and process innovation, and investment in research. Its careful instrumental variables approach seeks something especially elusive in social science: not merely whether immigration and innovation appear together, but whether one genuinely helps produce the other. 🔬📊

The findings are quietly striking. Immigrant employment increases patenting and the number of R&D workers, particularly in more productive firms and in workplaces where immigrant employment has already reached a meaningful scale. Immigration also supports firm growth, raises labor productivity, and complements rather than displaces native employment. Perhaps the newcomer is not simply filling an empty chair. Perhaps the room itself begins to think differently. 🌍🏭

This research appears in Research Policy, a prestigious academic journal included in the distinguished FT50 journal list, and is published by Elsevier. Our sincere thanks to Terhi Maczulskij, and to the editors and publisher who brought this important research to readers. 🙏📚

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If innovation depends not only on who enters a firm, but on whether the firm is ready to recognize what they bring, how much undiscovered possibility is still waiting quietly at the workplace door? 🤔