At least everyone thinks that there are no wealthy people here. Why is this?
We have come to find that there is one problem: Finland`s greatest natural resource is envy. We envy rich people, we are somehow reluctant to accept good feedback, we don’t live in beautiful houses, we don’t drive supercars and most of all, we don’t tell neighbors how well we are doing.
Truth on the other hand is that we have extremely wealthy and rich people living in Finland. Few of them made their fortune by working, like Anssi Vanjoki, but most of them - well they used to make it out of technology and innovations within. The sad part is that most of the money has been flowing back to technological innovations and R&D. When it should have been going to social innovations or service innovations.
Rovio is on everyone’s lips. Angry Birds is being played by most of the celebrities all the way in the USA and it just keeps growing. What makes Rovio and Angry Birds so special? It is the content created for Apple products. Apple created their products so that it would be as easy as possible to create attractive content for their devices. Rovio did just that, nothing more.
These days you hear these tech-millionaires screaming “We need more Rovio-type of companies in Finland.. forget Nokia” This is where we go wrong. Again. Rovio is a company whose success is based on creating an addictive, well done content for iPhone &and iPad – so actually we don’t need more “Rovio-type of companies”, we need more capital investments to seed-phase social innovations. We still need to focus on creating devices, yes, but we also need to start really focusing on content and service development. When we realize this and we can channel part of our capital investments to fund the social innovations, we will have a better working life - labour-unions (in Finnish: ay-liike) & STTK are happy. Who knows, in this case even the economy might kick in.
We have the knowledge, reputation, infrastructure and capital. All we need is a brave way to channel it and someone to lead the show.
We have come to find that there is one problem: Finland`s greatest natural resource is envy. We envy rich people, we are somehow reluctant to accept good feedback, we don’t live in beautiful houses, we don’t drive supercars and most of all, we don’t tell neighbors how well we are doing.
Truth on the other hand is that we have extremely wealthy and rich people living in Finland. Few of them made their fortune by working, like Anssi Vanjoki, but most of them - well they used to make it out of technology and innovations within. The sad part is that most of the money has been flowing back to technological innovations and R&D. When it should have been going to social innovations or service innovations.
Rovio is on everyone’s lips. Angry Birds is being played by most of the celebrities all the way in the USA and it just keeps growing. What makes Rovio and Angry Birds so special? It is the content created for Apple products. Apple created their products so that it would be as easy as possible to create attractive content for their devices. Rovio did just that, nothing more.
These days you hear these tech-millionaires screaming “We need more Rovio-type of companies in Finland.. forget Nokia” This is where we go wrong. Again. Rovio is a company whose success is based on creating an addictive, well done content for iPhone &and iPad – so actually we don’t need more “Rovio-type of companies”, we need more capital investments to seed-phase social innovations. We still need to focus on creating devices, yes, but we also need to start really focusing on content and service development. When we realize this and we can channel part of our capital investments to fund the social innovations, we will have a better working life - labour-unions (in Finnish: ay-liike) & STTK are happy. Who knows, in this case even the economy might kick in.
We have the knowledge, reputation, infrastructure and capital. All we need is a brave way to channel it and someone to lead the show.
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