Finnfacts publishes electronic and print newsletters on topical issues in Finnish business as well as general information material on Finnish industry and economy.

Finnfacts Newsletter

Finnfacts Newsletter offers exciting news and innovations from the Finnish companies and presents the strenghts of Finnish business life and industry.

Finnfacts Newsletter is published as a print publication four times a year and as an e-mail newsletter eight times a year in three languages: English, French and German.

Finnfacts Newsletter is targeted for foreign journalists and decisions makers in the main market areas of Finland.

Finnfacts Newsletter 1/2007 (pdf)
Finnfacts Newsletter 2/2007 (pdf)
Finnfacts Newsletter 3/2007 (pdf)
Finnfacts Newsletter 4/2007 (pdf)

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Finland - Naturally Innovative

Apart from one other country, more is spent per capita on research and development in Finland than anywhere else in the world - a considerable amount of this by companies.

This publication shows some of the innovations and innovative companies associated with both products and production technology as well as services and business models. The subjects have been grouped under five themes that reflect the strengths of Finnish business life. However, common to all the subjects in the publication are the characteristics that are often associated most generally with the concept of 'Finnishness': expertise, appropriateness and innovativeness — responsibly and with respect for the environment.

Finland - Naturally Innovative is published in five languages: English, German, Russian, and Chinese. It includes a CD-ROM which contains the whole publication in all five languages and all the pictures.

Finland - naturally innovative (pdf)

Tha articles from the publication can also be read in our Naturally Innovative section.

Finland 2007 Focus on the Economy and Technology

Published jointly in Finland by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Invest in Finland, and Finnfacts, this annual magazine emphasizes the attractions of Finland for foreign companies and investors.

FOCUS highlights the diversity, innovativeness, efficiency and competitiveness of Finland's business community, manufacturing environment and society as a whole.

The dominant theme of FOCUS on the Economy and Technology 2007 is products and services that enhance well-being.

FOCUS also surveys the games industry, Finnish design, contemporary dance, fly fishing, and, of course, monster rock icon Lordi, conqueror of last year's Eurovision Song Contest.

Circulation is handled mainly by Finnish embassies around the world.

FOCUS is published in six languages: English, German, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and Japanese.

Finland 2007 Focus on the Economy and Technology (pdf)

The Story of Finland

The Story of Finland booklet is intended as an overview of how Finland progressed to join the upper echelon of nations in development and utilization of technology.

The Story explains how each industrial sector came to extensively develop and exploit its own field of technology, from the electric and electronics industry to the garment industry with its 'smart clothing'.

The booklet is available in four languages: English, German, Russian and Chinese. It was published by the Economic Information Office in 2001.

Please click here for an abridged Internet version of the Story of Finland.

Page last updated 24.07.2007

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