Strategy of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment and its administrative branch

• Well-functioning markets and competition strengthen the operating conditions of business and industry.
• Innovations in business and industry increase and lead to business activities with high value added throughout Finland.
• Finland becomes the world’s leading operating environment for establishing new growth companies 
• Improving the effectiveness of the business subsidy system
• Investments by companies increase and exports grow.
• Industry modernises and industrial parks become stronger throughout Finland.

• Labour market matching and availability of skilled labour improve in all parts of the country.
• Labour market reforms increase competitiveness and improve incentives for employment.
• Productivity and quality of working life improve, working careers become longer.
• Employment areas organise employment services efficiently and in broad partnership.
• Needs of the labour market and RDI activities in terms of labour migration are met, the employment of immigrants improves and their employment rate rises to the same level as that of non-immigrants.

• Progress towards climate objectives is made as cost-effectively as possible and by speeding up investments.
• Investments are allocated to innovative projects with higher value added.
• A reliable, cost-effective and stable electricity system remains a competitive advantage for Finland.

• We enhance our operating models, tasks and organisation in a responsible and effective manner in cooperation with operators in the branch of government.
• We act proactively in human resources planning by allocating resources to strategic priorities, core functions and statutory tasks. Our resources are used efficiently and productively. 
• We ensure that our operating processes are technologically up-to-date and produce value added.
• The premise of activities in the government branch is that the operating conditions for private business improve. In this way, we help create growth and strengthen general government finances.
• We harmonise management and ensure productivity and effective operations.

Comprehensive security

• We support the operating conditions of business and industry through comprehensive security.
• In accordance with the cooperation model for comprehensive security, we actively participate and influence the development of the concept of comprehensive security, incident management and crisis management in society.
• We reform the regulation and planning in the branch of government to better respond to emergency conditions and serious incidents in normal conditions based on risk.
• We strengthen comprehensive security and security of supply by developing international cooperation through the EU and NATO and bilaterally with some states.

Security of supply

• We reform the security of supply legislation and ensure an adequate level and functioning of security of supply as part of comprehensive security in society.
• We strengthen Nordic cooperation on preparedness and security of supply.
• We promote cooperation between the authorities, business and the third sector with a partnership model.
• We support the vitality of regions through regional preparedness.
• We promote a well-functioning and resilient EU internal market and an open and rules-based trade policy.

Risk management

• We establish risk management as part of our strategy work and the Ministry’s normal processes (bill drafting, performance guidance, projects).
• We consider and assess risks and opportunities in different preparation and decision-making situations and monitor possible new threats.
• We continuously develop operating models for risk management and increase the resilience of the organisation. 
• We strengthen the security, risk management, continuity management and recovery capability of the government branch and interdependent critical services.

• We promote the conditions for sustainable growth in Finland by exerting proactive, constructive and anticipatory influence in the EU. Both the Ministry’s management and experts influence EU policies in an active and solution-oriented manner by also utilising cross-sectoral networks.
• We utilise the EU-sub-committee system and consult interest groups in determining our positions to exert proactive influence in the EU. 
• Our starting point for exerting influence in the EU is to strengthen the EU’s strategic competitiveness on the basis of the EU’s own strengths and market-based solutions. We highlight a well-functioning internal market and effective competition and state aid policy that promote a predictable and favourable investment environment. We strive for the renewal and technological leadership of EU industry by focusing on sectors critical to the clean and digital transitions.
• We work to ensure that EU funding is increasingly allocated to quality-based measures promoting research, innovation, competence, digitalisation, comprehensive security and the clean transition. Vibrancy of external border areas in eastern Finland is strengthened with EU special funding.

• We strive for a sustained and predictable regulatory environment that encourages growth and entrepreneurship and enables new innovations and the functioning of efficient markets. We recognise different impacts on businesses at a sufficiently early stage.
• We aim for better and lighter EU regulation. We ensure for our part that EU legislation creates a predictable and stable operating environment for investments. We make an effort to better anticipate EU legislation to ensure national implementation capacity.
• We ensure that our digital services support growth and strengthen security.
• We reduce administrative burden and dismantle norms that complicate everyday business activities.
• Development and introduction of artificial intelligence is enabled by implementing national regulation or reducing it.

• Our operating culture is based on shared values. 
• We take equality and non-discrimination into account in the preparation process, implementation of different projects and impact assessments of legislation.
• We promote gender equality as part of the promotion of integration, especially by increasing the transition to work of immigrant parents caring for children at home.
• We improve the receptiveness of Finnish working life and its ability to retain employees and we ensure that skilled foreign labour remains in Finland.