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Enterprise is viewed positively in Finland. Anyone can succeed as an entrepreneur, but whether entrepreneurship suits everybody is another question. Entrepreneurship requires professional expertise, training, one’s own field of activity and experience of customers and sales channels, enthusiasm and persistence. An extensive knowledge is necessary of local business legislation and the risks involved in entrepreneurship. Sufficient finance and careful planning are also important. Absolutely essential for a new company is to have a good business idea.
Free business advice is available to everyone in Finland. New enterprise centres all around the country are guiding potential entrepreneurs. If you have a good business idea, contact your nearest business development agency. Experts there will help you shape your business idea, conduct preliminary market research, make profitability calculations and chart the availability of financing. You will also receive advice on making a business plan and support for your decision at establishing a business.
Detailed business advice mainly in Finnish, Swedish and English:
Other links:
Web pages maintained by the European Union give practical information in 20 languages on international legislation and the potential for business activity within the European Union and its internal markets.
Business services place emphasis on the importance of entrepreneurial training. There are also courses especially for immigrants. Courses for entrepreneurs can be found on various pages about training:
One of the best aspects of entrepreneurship is independence. The entrepreneur has both the power and responsibility of decision-making. In entrepreneurship it is important to prepare in knowledge and skill as far as possible, as starting a business with insufficient expertise or language ability is extremely risky. Remember too, that a signature makes an agreement binding, so read all documents carefully before putting your name to any contracts. Note that you become an entrepreneur the moment you have declared yourself as such to the trade register and the tax authorities. After that you can no longer be an unemployed jobseeker.
The Yritys-Suomi web site features regular new articles about various business experiences.
The Yritys-Suomi pages linked here also explain how business operations may be developed with the aid of information technology (Finnish and Swedish only).