Start Your Business in Turku

Turku region is located in the most South-Western part of Finland. It is perfect for Baltic Sea trade. The region's economy is strong and diverse: Turku is home to successful shipbuilding and steel industry as well as one of the major bioscience centres in Scandinavia, and a lot more. Turku takes good care of entrepreneurs. For example Turku Area Development TAD Centre offers its expertise in helping you to establish a business in the Turku Region. Turku is very interested in new collaborative opportunities with the Baltic states along with the cities of Poland and North Germany. Also the cities of St Petersburg and Stockholm have always been important business areas for Turku.

In Turku Science Park innovations become business
The Turku character is largely influenced by a tradition of trading since its early founding days. This means a strongly rooted entrepreneurial culture and a focus on regional co-operation. Turku Science Park is an example of the innovative spirit created through a regional network of business and educational institutions in Turku: three universities, 50 research centres, 13 500 experts, 750 companies, 100 start-ups, linked together with the industry of the Turku business region with its 14 000 enterprises. The result is a truly innovative and interactive operational environment, which serves as an efficient basis for high-tech growth. Turku Science Park's strengths include biosciences, ict and materials research. Turku Science Park provides business premises both in the long and short term. 180 000 m² of state-of-the-art premises are already available, and the construction work continues. For example the Turku Bio Valley offers production and product development facilities made to measure for the pharmaceutical and diagnostics industries.

Baltic Business Network is a project creating concrete business opportunities for enterprises in Southwest Finland and Baltic countries.

Fast connections, easy to reach
Turku is conveniently located on the Oslo-Stockholm-Turku-Helsinki-St.Petersburg axis along the El 8-highway. Three and a half million people travel through the Port of Turku every year.

Business travellers can use the Turku International Airport which is expanding and will have more flight connections to the Baltic Sea area due to the growing business travelling in thase directions. Train connections to the rest Finland and Russia are good, especially the fast train (pendolino).