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Welcome
to Finland. There's not another place like it
anywhere on earth. Unique linguistically, hot
technologically. In the following you can take a closer look
at two highly promising industries offering good potential
in Finland today: Information and Communications Technology
and Health Care. In addition, the growing markets of the New
Northern Europe offer even more possibilities, with over 80
million consumers within your reach.
New Technology:
New technologies, pervasive in Finland, are just taking off
in what should be the centre of the technology universe. In
the Internet world, where the New, New Thing may have as
little as nine months to get established before competition
sets in, there is a tremendous advantage in working where
people live a couple years in the technological future.
R&D focused on future growth
areas:
As Finland has become integrated into the world economy, its
industrial production has become more diversified. The
current emphasis is on high-value, technology-intense
exports. Finnish high-tech exports amounted to 20,6% of
total exports in 2002.
Multinationals join in development of
wireless eBusiness applications:
Finland can offer highly skilled research teams at
universities and research institutes, and in particular
companies can benefit from industrial partners of the
highest standard. The quality of Finnish R&D and the
performance of technological cooperation have been evaluated
to meet competitive international standards.
Many companies operating worldwide have located their key
resources and laboratories for technological development in
Finland.
Finland was the first country to launch a digital network
for mobile communications. Today digital mobile phone
penetration is 80%, with the fastest growing user group
between the ages of 7 and 12. Thanks to new innovations such
as the wireless application protocol (WAP), broadband
wireless (UMTS) and industry initiatives such as Bluetooth
and General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), mobile devices are
changing fundamental patterns of social and economic
behaviour.
One striking aspect of Finnish life is how seamlessly
information technology has been integrated into production,
work and home life. Banks, schools, libraries and hospitals
exist virtually as well as physically. Thanks to the early
acceptance of strong encryption approaches, eBusiness has
developed briskly and reliably. Several of the world’s top
Internet security companies are based in Finland. Online
banking is so well established that individuals engaging in
traditional banking are the clear minority. Finns use the
least physical cash per capita of any people in the world.
Even ATMs (cash machines), still considered an innovation
elsewhere, are already anachronisms.
Convergence of wireless and Internet
technologies affects us all:
Finland is in a globally unique position to lead development
in wireless and Web convergence. And its telecom cluster and
third-generation mobile Internet are closely linked to other
industries. Within the telecom cluster, electronics and
software makers have prospered. Content producers and
digital media companies are also doing well.
Finland has essentially become a major base for convergence
technologies. Once the winners distinguish themselves, the
global market lies ahead. Thus, firms in the field come to
Finland when they feel they can no longer afford not to be
present here. As the talent resources are finite, the sooner
they commit to Finland the better.
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