IfTI: Business Finland on growth acceleration

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Max Thompson

Managing Editor

TXF spoke with Nina Kopola, director general and CEO at Business Finland to discuss her recent strategic and organisational reforms at the Finish promotion agency for innovation funding and trade, in a bid to accelerate growth domestically.

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