Business Finland’s mission is to catalyze new growth and create opportunities for Finland through innovation and international expansion. Our strategy is twofold: enabling global growth for companies and creating world-class business ecosystems and competitive business environment for Finland.”

Health Capital is an alliance of University of Helsinki, Aalto University, HUS - Helsinki University Hospital and City of Helsinki. The goal of Health Capital Helsinki is to make Helsinki Metropolitan the leading research, innovation, business development hub of the life science and health technology field in Northern Europe. Today health technology and life science is Finland’s number one high technology export field. Helsinki metropolitan is the coolest tech hub. City of Helsinki is top 3 in entrepreneurial culture and quality of life in Europe and top 3 globally in supporting innovation. Global MIT ranking has identified Helsinki Metropolitan’s Aalto University among top 5 arising stars. University of Helsinki is among the top 1% of the world’s best scientific universitites. In the region there also is one of the biggest hospitals in Western countries, Helsinki University Hospital. Taken together this combo carries a huge scientific and business potential.

Tekes is the most important publicly funded expert organisation for financing research, development and innovation in Finland. Tekes boosts wide-ranging innovation activities in research communities, industry and service sectors. Tekes works with the top innovative companies and research units in Finland. Every year, Tekes finances some 1,500 business research and development projects, and almost 600 public research projects at universities, research institutes and universities of applied sciences.