Objectives and areas of focus
The growth zone links urban regions into a wider job market and economic area offering businesses internationally attractive investments.
The objectives of the Northern Growth Zone include:
- increasing Finland’s competitiveness on the export and transit market
- create sustainable, traditional and digital traffic and transport services
- commercialise innovations through international cooperation
- increase the functionality of a uniform labour market area and economic area
- enhance Finland’s attractiveness as an operating environment of business sector
The strategic points of focus include:
- wise and frictionless flows of goods over administrative and territorial borders
- transport chains and logistical solutions for the business sector, particularly for technology transports
- being an innovative development platform for producing and testing new digital solutions and services (including automatisation)
- scalability and reproducibility of implemented project entities elsewhere in Finland and internationally
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