• Setting up a business
• Location
  • Baltic Sea Region
    • Population and workforce
    • The economy of the Baltic Sea Region
  • Finland
    • Population and workforce
    • The Economy of Finland
  • Greater Helsinki
    • Population and workforce
    • The economy of Greater Helsinki
• International accessibility
• Costs
  • Additional costs
  • Salary costs and contributions
• Ecosystems
  • Demographics of business
  • Global corporate B2B brands in Finland
  • 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
  • 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
• Quality of life
• Taxes

The Finns are known as a hard-working people. Helsinki is consistently in the Top 10 for productivity in Europe. More than a third of Helsinki’s inhabitants have higher-level education, which is more than anywhere else in the world. The Finnish school system provides world-leading universal education, as confirmed by PISA studies over and over again.

In general, the workforce in Finland has very good ICT and language skills and is known for its high ethics and productivity. English as a business language causes no problems for Finnish workers as they are required to take English at all levels of their studies.

The availability of a highly educated workforce in knowledge intensive business areas is high. Finland’s world renowned, $12 billion annual innovation system owes its success to the researchers and other professionals working in Finland. R&D-intensive companies from around the world are taking advantage of Helsinki’s innovation ecosystem. The labor costs are relatively low compared to many other Western countries

The population of Helsinki is 1.34 million (5.4 million in the whole country). The size of the available workforce in Helsinki is 712,900 persons (2.7 million in Finland in total). 49 per cent of the workforce is men and 51 per cent women.