Posts tagged “governments”

Finland needs to seriously rethink its strategy towards entrepreneurship

I thought of writing about this to ArcticStartup since it relates to the startup ecosystem so closely, but decided to post it on my personal blog as it is such a strong personal opinion. Taxes in society work to distribute wealth, run governmental organisations to generate services for everyone, enable running of cultural services that [...]

Innovation In Large Companies Is Like Inflation

I was walking home last night from the Startup Christmas party in downtown Helsinki, organised by GrowVC and Aalto Entrepreneurship Society, I came up with an interesting way of looking at our innovation system from the national perspective. Innovation, as we all know, is an extremely hot topic among politicians as they try to dig [...]

Taking Our Economy For Granted

I’ve been thinking about a couple of issues regarding our economy for quite some time now, but it was only until Marja Heikkinen-Jarnola’s column that I decided to blog about them. Heikkinen-Jarnola is a controller at the Ministry of Transport and Communications. I’ll leave the other issue for a new blog post so I won’t [...]