In this study, we analyze the characteristics and development of Finnish startups based on firm-level data available in public databases. By startups we refer to young, small, and independent firms holding basic elements for growth. Some 4 000–5 000 of such firms are being established...

About half of all new business activity in Finland can be categorized as being entrepreneurial. The number of this kind of new businesses has not increased dramatically during the last ten years. However, the characteristics of these businesses have changed. Nowadays, new entrepreneurs have...

The report examines the dynamics of company size classes in Finland and the relationship between growth barriers and company size. It investigates how Finnish companies have moved between different company size categories from 2008 to 2020, categorizing them based on both the number of employees...

In this report, we study the development of Finnish startup firms based on both survey and register data. The sample includes all firms that were founded in the first half of the year 2005, and those firms have been monitored for eight years. We find that entrepreneurs in growth-oriented...

Tässä raportissa tutkitaan aloittavia ja erityisesti kasvuhakuisia yrittäjiä ja heidän yrityksiään laajaa tietokoneavusteista puhelinkyselyä hyödyntäen. Tulosten valossa näyttää siltä, että kasvuhakuinen uusyrittäjä on usein korkeahkon teknisen koulutuksen omaava mies, hänellä...