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Incubating talent
Startup Sauna, Aalto Entrepreneurship Society (Aaltoes), Finland
Business & innovationEntrepreneurs

Incubating talent

Innovative programs such as Startup Sauna and New Factory groom startups for competition on the global market.

Tagged in BusinessEconomyEntrepreneurs
Expat experts explore Finnish forestry
Joensuu, eastern Finland, forestry, forest management industry, foreign students, employees
Business & innovationEconomy

Expat experts explore Finnish forestry

Students and workers come to Joensuu for first-hand experience in the forest industry. Some end up staying in Finland.

Tagged in BusinessEconomyForestry
Asia and Europe meet creatively in Finland
EARS, music, design, media, performing arts, Helsinki, Finland, Europe-Asia Roundtable Sessions, VICE China, Modern Sky Entertainment, Niubi Festival, Erik Söderblom, Helsinki Festival, China
Business & innovationEconomy

Asia and Europe meet creatively in Finland

Connecting with the right people: Creative-industry pros from Europe and Asia meet at the EARS event in Helsinki.

Tagged in BusinessEconomyMulticulturalism
Startups show Finnish innovation in Oulu
Netsono, Juha Torvinen, Breaking Ice Cube, KeepLoop mobile microscope, Midnight Pitch Fest
Business & innovationEconomy

Startups show Finnish innovation in Oulu

Each year at Midnight Pitch Fest in Oulu, innovative startups seek fame and fortune. We talk to some of the best.

Tagged in EconomyInnovation
Finnish industry: constantly adapting to a changing world
Blurred people riding up and down crisscrossing escalators.
Business & innovationEconomy

Finnish industry: constantly adapting to a changing world

Finland has gone from forestry-based to technology-based economy, and is now undergoing a further transition to service-dominated society.

Tagged in DesignEconomyTechnology
Finnish swans take to the water
Nautor Swan, yachts, sailboats, regatta, Finnish boatbuilding, shipbuilding, Pietarsaari, Jakobstand, Finland
Business & innovationEconomy

Finnish swans take to the water

About 50 years ago, a Finnish entrepreneur mixed nature, design and business in a line of boats that’s still sailing strong.

Tagged in EconomyTravel
Social entrepreneurship rising in Finland
Social entrepreneurs, Association of Finnish Work, Mifuko, Nairobi, Kenya, Kanresta, Finnish Association for Public Health, Sotek, Helsinki, Kotka, Hamina, Finland
Business & innovationEconomy

Social entrepreneurship rising in Finland

Social entrepreneurship is on the rise in Finland as thousands of companies in the environment, health and culture sectors are making their mark.

Tagged in EconomyWork
Ideas and money flow at Slush Helsinki
Slush Helsinki, startups, entrepreneurs, investors, Angry Birds, Peter Vesterbacka, Supercell, Ilkka Paananen, Jyrki Katainen, Arkady Dvorkovich, Amazon, Nokia, Finland
Business & innovationEconomy

Ideas and money flow at Slush Helsinki

Our reporter sends an update from among the throngs of investors and startup entrepreneurs at Slush Helsinki.

Tagged in EconomyEntrepreneurs

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