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Finland can offer significant new environmental technologies and innovations to the rest of the world, according to a new assessment by VTT Technical Research Centre.

Otaniemi is now home to Finland’s Nanomicroscopy Centre. Set up to research both nanomaterials and biomaterials, it is one of the largest of its kind in Europe.

Finnish high-tech growth companies raised more than 50 per cent less in the second quarter of 2009 than in 2008, according to a new report.

Nokia is to give away some of its intellectual property for free, in a scheme set up to recycle unused ideas and innovations to other Finnish companies.