Industry Outline: SMALL GIANT IN HEALTHCARE

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For decades, Finland has invested hundreds of millions of euros per year in health-related education, research, and research infrastructures. This has resulted in creating cutting-edge Finnish research and treatment for such specialist areas as cancer, brain diseases, orthopedics, and genetics. Finland has an abundance of creative knowhow in digital solutions and new health technologies, and we have one of the largest startup ecosystems in the world. Over the last two decades, Finland’s value of exports has increased five-fold to over EUR 2,2 billion in 2017.

This two pager, published by Business Finland, offers some basic information on Finnish health and wellbeing industry.