THE FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION FOCUS AREAS 2025

The grant focus areas of the Foundation for Economic Education are part of long-term support for business, entrepreneurship, and Finland’s economic growth. They reflect the transformation of the current operating environment, are interconnected, and share a cross-cutting theme of future-oriented research and education. The focus area guidelines emphasize responsibility and entrepreneurial ecosystems. Researchers are encouraged to conduct pioneering studies and to compile and acquire new datasets and databases.

• How to make effective use of new business opportunities?
• What are the internal mechanisms for corporate renewal?
• Geopolitical challenges. How can we better understand and manage the changing business environment?

• How do startups become SMEs?
• How to get companies to grow and scale more in large numbers?
• How to create entrepreneurial ecosystems?
• What is the role of ownership in companies?
• How do changes in ownership affect different levels at various stages of business development?

• How can the business be developed towards responsibility?
• The link between climate change, natural loss and resource over-consumption in business.
• How to promote the convergence of technology and sustainable development? Green transition and its financing.
• How is the normative environment developing alongside technology?
• Development of the risk analyzes of the security of supply and cyber security.

• The impacts of digitalization, artificial intelligence, and data on industry dynamics.
• Competition policy and regulation.
• Private and public sectors.
• Changes driven by geopolitics and the new opportunities it presents.
• The green transition as part of industry dynamics and a driver of growth.

• How do we develop management skills in different sectors, in addition to companies in public organizations?
• How should telecommuting and remote work be managed at both the operational and board level?
• How do we develop risk management?