“瑞典模式”与瑞典社民党

瑞典社会民主党，成立于1889年，自1917年与当时瑞典自由党联合执政以来，稳居瑞典政党的第一把交椅，执政时间长达64年。进入二十一世纪，欧洲执政的左翼政党多数下野或者处于困境，而瑞典社民党却一枝独秀，在2002年全国大选中不仅保住了执政地位，而且得票有较大增长。在瑞典社民党长期执政下，瑞典这个北欧国家创建了独特的“瑞典模式”，并成为世界上人均GDP占第二位、社会福利位居世界第一的发达国家。     

Social-economic Development of Small West European Peripheral Countries

In the framework of different countries＇ international comparison, the objective of this paper reflects research topic of investigation--the identification of small countries, revealing features of economic development and business growth in economic history context of small economies classification. The object of investigation focuses on West European and Nordic countries＇ small economies. The hypothesis of the article is that small states under consideration are developing as the business competitive peripheries areas due to the special Scandinavian capitalist model development characterized by high level of social capital. The statistical data base includes Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development indicators, World Bank parameters and Nordic transnational corporation＇s annual reports. The paper considers the following research questions： （1） the critical overview of the mainstream academicians opinions concerning different-scaled economies, （2） classification of small states and clarification of different groups of the small-scaled countries role in the world and regional economy through historical context, （3） estimates and variants of small countries＇ social-economic development in accordance with different parameters, （4） consideration of Nordic European countries coming to the business model of the competitive peripheral social-economic development. The main summing up conclusion is that small economies of Nordic Europe are converting nowadays into the experimental laboratory of the European and world economy due to the specific model of their social-oriented economic and business growth, their geopolitical location between developed European integration complex embracing presumably small-scaled states from one side and large-scaled emerging market economy of Asian continent from the other side.     

芬兰，享受仲夏午夜阳光

受朋友Tarja之邀，来到极具北欧风情的国度——芬兰，参加仲夏节。仲夏节是芬兰除了圣诞和新年之外非常重要的节日。其实不止芬兰，仲夏节还是瑞典、挪威、丹麦等靠近北极的北欧国家的传统节日，     

Disruptive Innovation in the Nordic Countries＇ Healthcare Systems

The Nordic healtheare model is recognized to be one of the most innovative in the world. Here billions of USD are annually invested in developing new treatments, drugs, robots etc. to diagnose and cure diseases. Nevertheless, this study establishes that there is a fundamental shortcoming in the system that supports healthcare innovation： It is strongly biased towards micro-level innovation projects focusing on new products, alternative processes, and new financial solutions. The problem with this approach to support new projects is that the results are created as inventions within the system thus lacking holistic perspectives. This has consequently contributed with increasing costs that are out of proportion with existing budgets. Therefore this study seeks to analyze the current understanding of the Nordic healthcare system from a business model perspective. Here other aspects of the healthcare system are explored to determine if they could be redesigned to promote new types of innovation projects. The purpose of undertaking this task is to challenge the established patterns of the current healthcare innovation support practices. Here the vertical innovation process （VIP） framework, which is a systematic radical innovation model that seeks macro-level outcomes based on standalone inventions （see more below）, is applied to analyze the current state-of-the-art in Nordic healthcare innovation projects. The results determine that very little attention is given to rethink and redesign the healthcare system at a macro-level, and it is discussed that stand-alone inventions ought to be rethought into the entire healthcare system to create a larger impact. Finally, it is argued that existing performance measures are inappropriate to foster projects that innovate the existing system： New measuring points should be developed to promote macro-level projects and to avoid the current rapid increase of costs in the Nordic healthcare system.     

Swedish Pavilion promotion in Stockholm

Swedish Pavilion for Expo 2010＇s promotion was staged in Swedish Prime Minister＇s Palace on local time of February 4 in Stockholm, the Nordic Country＇s Capital.     

北欧国家报业变革与发展

瑞典、丹麦、挪威等北欧国家是世界上著名的报业发达国家。2005年，世界报纸人均拥有量居前5位的国家依次为挪威、日本、芬兰、瑞典和瑞士。2008年，挪威、芬兰、瑞典的报纸千人拥有量分列世界第2—4位。近年来，受世界报业不景气的影响，北欧国家的报业开始出现衰退。北欧传媒研究中心所作的调查显示：     

缩小贫富差距的异国密码

北欧各国是闻名于世的富裕国家，其均贫富的水平，令许多贫富分化严重的国家欣羡，这首要归功于北欧各国的高福利政策。在许多北欧国家，各种福利补助内容复杂、体系庞大、名目繁多，形成了“从摇篮到坟墓”的一揽子福利政策。     

品味北欧廉政文化

如果说完善的监督体系是廉政之本,那么,积极的廉政文化必然是廉政之标。北欧国家的社会廉政为整个国际社会所认同。究其原因,除了有优厚的福利待遇和完备的制度及监督体系外,更因为其具有积极健康的廉政文化。