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?
