- Enterprises
- Industrial policy
- Innovation policy
- Focus areas
- Regulation of business operations
- Internationalisation of enterprises
- Single market of the EU
- Business services
- Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
- MEE Business Sector Services
- Enterprise financing
- Working life
- Labour legislation
- Employment contract and employment relationship
- Working hours and annual holiday
- Improving and maintaining employees’ competence
- Non-discrimination and equality in working life
- Protection of privacy at work and working with children
- Co-operation procedure and other personnel representation systems
- Key points of the Co-operation Act
- Negotiation obligation
- Content and timing of negotiation obligation
- Duty to inform representatives of personnel groups
- Undertaking’s general plans, principles and objectives
- Personnel and training plan
- Matters to be handled in the co-operation procedure
- Co-operation procedure when the use of personnel is reduced
- Confidentiality and sanctions
- Co-operation within a Finnish group of undertakings
- Co-operation within a community-wide group of undertakings and an undertaking
- Employee Involvement in European Companies (SE) and European Cooperative Societies (SCE)
- Personnel funds
- Key points of the Co-operation Act
- Collective agreements and mediation in labour disputes
- Contractor’s obligations and liability
- Employee’s position if employer becomes insolvent
- Working life development
- Integration of immigrants
- Employment
- Support and compensations
- Employment Bulletin and Employment Service Statistics
- Labour legislation
- Energy
- Energy and climate strategy
- Electricity market
- Natural gas market
- Emissions trading
- Emissions Trading Directive
- Auctioning of emission allowances
- Emissions trading in aviation
- Free allocation of allowances during emissions trading period 2013-2020
- Aid for indirect emission costs
- Free allocation of allowances in 2021-2030
- Monitoring, reporting and verification
- Project-based mechanisms in the trading period 2013–2020
- Renewable energy
- Energy efficiency
- Energy Efficiency Directive and Energy Efficiency Act
- Nuclear energy
- Security of energy supply
- International and EU cooperation in the energy sector
- Energy technologies
- Competition and consumers
- Regions
- Objectives and planning of regional development
- Regional innovations and experimentations
- Urban development
- Structural change
- EU’s regional and structural policy
- ELY Centres
Utilisation of research and expertise
Utilisation of research data and new technologies plays an important role as a source of sustainable growth and innovation. Although Finland is known as a country with high technology and expertise, the majority of research findings remain unpublished. No rewards are given for the utilisation of research results, and the lack of contacts necessary for commercialisation represents a bottleneck for effective use of data.
The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment promotes the use of research data to support and safeguard the economy and social wellbeing. It takes measures to remove barriers between research and business life and to develop new operating models and instruments to promote such use. The Ministry works in cooperation with key partners such as the Ministry of Education and Culture, higher education institutions and business life. The Ministry also produces information on the utilisation of research data, and on the development and effectiveness of cooperation.
Further information:
Pirjo Kutinlahti
pirjo.kutinlahti(at)tem.fi