• Greater Helsinki
  • A compact, green and healthy city
  • Highly educated professionals
  • Population and workforce
  • Strategic location between East and West
  • The economy of Greater Helsinki
• Finland
  • International accessibility
  • Population and workforce
  • The Finnish Economy
• Baltic Sea Region
  • Population and workforce
  • The economy of the Baltic Sea region
• The Economy
  • Driving force of the Finnish economy
  • Environmental Performance
• Costs
  • Additional costs
  • Salary costs and contributions
• Ecosystems
  • Demographics of business
  • Global corporate B2B brands in Finland
  • International business environment
  • Key ecosystems
    • Cleantech
    • Design & Creativity
    • ICT
    • KIBS, Knowledge Intensive Business Services
    • Life Sciences
    • Logistics
  • Venture Capital
• Workforce
  • Employment
  • Level of education
    • Skills
  • Productivity
• R&D&I (Research, Development & Innovation)
  • Benchmarking the Finnish innovation system
  • Independent research institutes located in Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa
  • Patents
    • Domestic companies with the highest number of patent applications filed in 2010
  • R&D expenditure
  • R&D&I support organizations in Greater Helsinki Region
  • Research institutions and communities of science
  • The basic science and innovation profile of Finland as a radar graph
  • The objectives of Finnish innovation policy and funding of R&D 2011-2015
  • Universities and universities of applied sciences
• Infrastructure
  • Business districts
  • Commuting times
  • Well developed and functioning infrastructure
• Taxes

Finland is well-known for its excellence in education: Finnish students have repeatedly ranked first in OECD’s PISA study. The compulsory education continues until the age of 16 and after that most continue to vocational schools and high schools, and further on to higher education in universities and universities of applied sciences.

The number of engineers in Helsinki is high: about 30,000 in a total population
of 1.3 million. There are five schools that offer both bachelor and higher
level education in engineering. (Statistics Finland)

Language skills

Finland is a bilingual country; its two official languages are Finnish and Swedish. Foreign languages are studied from the age of 9 and every student studies at least two languages by the age of 16.