Grants and subsidies

Your company can receive public grants and subsidies at different stages of its operations. You can apply for grants for establishing your company, for making investments in your company and for the development of your company. Grants that you can apply for include research, expertise and innovation grants as well as subsidies for different types of experiments and trials.

Usually, grants and subsidies do not need to be repaid, but they do often include a requirement for self-financing proportion, i.e. a certain amount of the financing must be from the company's own resources.

Key financial services for company founders and companies:

• Start-up grant: support for the livelihood of a new entrepreneur (KEHA Centre)Opens in a new window.
• Business development aid (Economic Development Centre)
• Business Finland's funding services (Business Finland) and Business Finland programsOpens in a new window.

Your company can also apply for hiring subsidies granted by the employment authority to cover the wage costs of an unemployed jobseeker.

For advice on financing, contact the Enterprise Finland advisory service or Economic Development Centre's SME Financial Advisory, for instance.

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