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Columns on growth entrepreneurship What difference does it make putting students or researchers from three different schools under one roof to work together? 18.06.2009 Deloitte's Tax Experts: Tax Reforms to Boost Economic Growth and Renewal When assessing the details of the Government’s economic revival package, taxation experts and other interested parties have voiced their views on how the public sector might support the operating conditions of companies in these hard and challenging times, particularly through corporate taxation methods. However, it seems that, in part, out-of-date methods lie at the core of the proposals for change, i.e. the return of provisions, already omitted from the Business Tax Act in the 1990s, as a method of balancing business profits. How might new assessment methods be identified? 07.04.2009 Kaija Pöysti: In Search of Growth Companies This column series offers worthy contributions on how Finland can increase the number of its growth companies. As Mr. Petri Rouvinen from ETLA notes, growth companies create new jobs and economic growth, which in turn increases the well-being of its citizens. I quite agree with him in this being an important goal: a well-run national economy creates well-being for its citizens both directly, and indirectly through better public services. I have to say, though, that cutting salad from school lunches due to cost savings is not an example of good public service – but that is a topic of another column. Like Cato, I am just going to mention this topic in every column I write until the decision will be reversed. 02.03.2009 Mika Tammenkoski: Networking as a way to speed up company growth Growth entrepreneurship has been widely discussed in Finland recently. The issue has been examined from various perspectives, and several operating models have been proposed as ways of enhancing the preconditions for growth entrepreneurship. However, one area that I find essential has been totally neglected: networking taking place within business sectors, under the guidance of the internal operators of each industry. This kind of networking gives rise to micro networks that are invaluable to the ecosystem of growth enterprises. Micro networks help to establish a window to events within the industry and greatly improve the competence level of all actors involved. Supporting and nurturing micro networks is therefore as important as supporting individual companies. One of the main goals of the Policy Programme for Employment, Entrepreneurship and Worklife of Vanhanen’s Second Government is enhancing the growth-orientation of entrepreneurs and enterprises. The promotion of entrepreneurship – especially when growth-oriented – is thus high on the political agenda… But why?
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