Finland Fit for Digital Program is an initiative to bring together the national efforts on promoting the digitalization of business.
Name in original language
Älyvalmis Suomi
Initiative overview
Finland Fit for Digital Program is about bringing together the national efforts on promoting the digitalization of business. Currently stakeholder views are being collected on a programme to be launched for the Government term of 2019 to 2023 under the name Finland Fit for Digital'. The programme will be anchored in the key numerical targets of the Government: carbon neutral economy by 2035, 75 per cent employment rate by 2023 and RDI expenditure level of 4 per cents of GDP by 2030. Reaching these targets will require speeding up the adoption of digital technologies by enterprises, particularly by SMEs. Research shows that digitally advanced businesses are more productive and grow faster than less digitalized companies. Digitalisation also offers possibilities for companies that are under the risk of being left behind because of the slow rate of digitalization. Therefore, Finland Fit for Digital, a programme to promote digialisation of businesses, will focus on three lines of action:-formulating a strategy for sustainable manufacturing as the framework for even more extensive PPP collaboration-improving the digital readiness of industrial SMEs, focusing especially on strengthening the business-driven and future-oriented motivation of business owners and entrepreneurs for investments in digital transformation strengthening, and-modernizing the public support services and structures for digital transformation, e.g. by launching e.g. European DIHs and the Sustainable Manufacturing program at Business Finland. The programme will address a number of issues in a cross-cutting way:- new technologies incl. AI, IoT, 5G, blockchain, photonics, synthetic biology “ robotics, additive manufacturing¦- new business models enabled by data and platform economy- circular economy ecosystems- changes in skills, management culture, innovation cooperation- EU and other international contexts: policy priorities, networks.The initiative has the following objectives:To formulate a strategy for sustainable manufacturing as the framework for even more extensive PPP collaboration.To improve the digital readiness of industrial SMEs.To modernize the public support services and structures for digital transformation.
Name of responsible organisation (in English)
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment (MEAE)
