• ICT – the keys to renewal
    Finland could become a pioneer in digitalisation. To accomplish this, the country’s digital operational environment needs to be updated to meet modern standards.
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  • Innovations: A step ahead
    The international success of Finnish companies in the technology industries is based on innovation, expertise in the newest technologies and business, as well as flexibility. It is imperative to be a step ahead of the competition.
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  • Advancing Technology Finland!
    Finland's reforming technology industries need a wide variety of expertise – and experts. Strategic cooperation between companies, schools and research institutes is needed to turn this expertise into growth and employment.
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  • Ensuring the conditions for success
    Areas such as the taxation system, legislation, the availability of financing and the level of labour costs should be used to encourage companies to grow and provide employment, and to spur them on to even greater efforts.
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  • Company specificity in working conditions
    To ensure that companies continue to thrive in competitive international markets, employment terms – such as wages, working hours and absences – should be more flexibly negotiated at company and individual level.
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20
Mar
2019
International solution to update taxation rules fit for the 21st century sought by the OECD
The OECD requested comments for their Consultation Document “Addressing the Tax Challenges of the Digitalisation of the Economy” by 6 March 2019. A public hearing was held on the 13-14 March.
12
Mar
2019
News
Collective bargaining for the technology industry to take place this autumn
Technology Industries of Finland and the Industrial Union have agreed not to invoke the so-called option year contained in the current collective agreements. The option was included in the collective agreements for the technology, ore mining and sheet metal and industrial insulation industries. As a result of the decision, collective bargaining will take place this autumn under normal procedures.
22
Feb
2019
Perspective
The success story of autonomous shipping would not have come about without the Finnish innovation system
The One Sea ecosystem is a Finnish success story – and a globally unique example of cooperation between the public and private sectors. Public RDI funding should be focused on initiatives that no single operator would be able to complete alone, writes Sauli Eloranta, CTO of Rolls-Royce Marine.
30
Jan
2019
Announcement
Technology industry outlook: Uncertainty dims growth outlook, but no major impact seen yet
Global economic uncertainty dims the growth outlook for technology industry, but no major impact has been seen yet. This is how Jukka Palokangas, Chief Economist at the Federation of Finnish Technology Industries, summarises the current situation.
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