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Finnish Valtavalo sells lighting as a service

Valtavalo, a manufacturer of LED tubes, sells lighting as a service, rather than purveying lamps as products. This is an excellent example of the circular economy concept, based on buying a service rather than a physical product.

Life & society Cuisine

Culinary pleasures across Finland

Food innovators combine Finland’s culinary tradition with an international, urban style. The focus is on local food and ecological values.

Business & innovation Technology

Finnish cybersecurity CEO understands the nuts and bolts of technology

Risto Siilasmaa, founder of F-Secure and chair of Nokia, tells us about how his career began, how to think entrepreneurially and how he got a deeper understanding of AI and machine learning. The latter is “much more fascinating than I had dared hope” and “dangerous to ignore.”