Business Finland offers Finnish companies a unified customer journey for innovation activities, internationalization, investments, and tourism promotion. Business Finland is the Finnish government organization for innovation funding and trade, travel and investment promotion. Business Finland's 600 experts work in 40 offices globally and in 16 regional offices around Finland. Business Finland is part of the Team Finland network.
We help our customer companies grow and succeed globally, develop solutions for the future and renew their business operations boldly. We promote collaboration between companies and research groups, so that new endeavors can develop into international business ecosystems. We are developing Finland into the most attractive and competitive innovation environment and the most enticing investment and travel destination in the world.
Our organization employs 760 specialists at 40 foreign locations and 16 offices in Finland. Business Finland is a public-sector operator and part of the Team Finland network.
Our new strategy aims to serve the needs of the Finnish Economy even better than before and in a more needs-oriented manner. We will adopt an even more customer-oriented approach while enhancing our employee experience, we will be more proactive in seizing the opportunities arising from significant societal changes, and we will place sustainable development at the heart of our strategy and operations.
Business Finland's Code of Conduct applies to all of Business Finland's personnel, regardless of the quality and duration of the employment, official or commission relationship. Business Finland's contractual partners are also obliged to follow these principles in their activities related to the contractual relationship.
Business Finland performs the service task given to it by the Finnish government and stipulated by law. Therefore social responsibility is a key part of Business Finland's operations.
In 2018, Finpro, which offers internationalization, investment and tourism promotion services, and Tekes, which offers innovation financing, merged to form Business Finland.
Funding
Financial resources that are allocated to a business venture
Initial capital
Initial amount of money invested into a business, also known as seed capital
Private Offices
Fully enclosed office spaces within a shared office building, reserved for a single company or team