Why is Finland Europe's technology leader? The Prime Minister explains
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The Scandanavian nation spends a lot in R&D, which has kept them buoyant. Next: Finland wants to move into clean tech.
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After the runaway success of Nokia in the late 1990's, Finland seems to be pondering whether it has lost its competitive inventive edge.
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When Wayne Gretzky has watched Team Finland, he has viewed it as having the disposition of a guard dog rather than an underdog. He believes the Finns are in the World
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Finnish education and research should yield more innovation than at present, Erkki Leppavuori, director general of VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland said on Tuesday.
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Pry my bloated tech base out of my cold dead fingers The chief of the European Defence Agency says that EU nations must develop more sophisticated weapons technology jointly among themselves in order to be free of dependence on American exports. Specifically, Alexander Weis believes that European countries should club together to build spy satellites and heavy-lift helicopters.â¦
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Finnish, Swedish, and Norwegian Prime Ministers to visit Thailand Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen (Centre) will visit Thailand on January 16th - 19th.
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Finnish President Tarja Halonen on Thursday spoke against suggestions to transfer to government the final authority to deploy Finnish troops as part of the European Union's rapid response force.
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BRUSSELS -- The European Commission has asked four European Union (E.U.) countries to justify why they favor Intel Corp. processors in computers for public authorities, it announced Wednesday.
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A new strategy for funding technology research in the European Union calls for the E.U. to pool its vast resources with those from private industry and individual member states in a public-private partnership.
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I'm not the kind of guy to toot my own horn, but I believe most of you understand, sympathize and approve of tooting my country's horn. While us Finns have plenty of things to be proud of - Nokia, sauna, and I'm sure there's other stuff - our music is a wide-open door into the dark well of the Finnish psyche, a nation with one of the highest suicide rates in the world and 24 hours of darkness in the winter. With that marketing speech out of the way, behold how hard we rock, how fast and loud we are below the fold.
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The European Union may not be very good at creating jobs and producing goods people want to buy, but when it comes to setting up high level working groups and churning out reports, it is a world leader.
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Finland, the European country with the most rapidly aging population, has succeeded in convincing its workers to delay retirement, setting an example for the rest of Europe.
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The number one goal of Finnish enterprises is growth. In a survey by the Central Chamber of Commerce, 64 per cent of respondents named tough competition as the biggest impediment on the road to growth.
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Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov is to visit Helsinki next Tuesday and Wednesday, scheduled to meet Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen (centre) and President Tarja Halonen (soc dem), the Finnish government ...
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In the latest statement in the ongoing debate over whether or not Finland has become allied or otherwise through its involvement in EU defence forces, the Parliamentary Defence Committee noted on Tuesday that ...
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Vive La France! Column Last week, a report emerged with one of the most unlikely conclusions in the short history of digital policy. The report was built around yet another ranking of the technological performance of different countries around the world.â¦
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Music will continue its reign as the prime mover of European gadgets, according to Jupiter Research. A survey of 5,000 consumers from Britain, Germany, France, Sweden, Spain and Italy, revealed that devices