Keyword: Turku School of Economics
Symposium on Social Sciences on 8 May 2024
Unique collaboration strengthens data-driven life science manufacturing
Business Finland recently granted funding to a 11.7M€ project led by the University of Turku, which seeks to enhance advanced pharmaceutical and life science manufacturing in Finland. The LifeFactFuture project combines world class-excellence of Finnish life science companies, technology companies and academic researchers, and the funding decision demonstrates how public funding for research and development can enable important university–industry research cooperation. The funding decision is among the largest received at the University of Turku in the history of Business Finland.
The 2023 shipping company barometer published - after a difficult 2023, shipping companies anticipate better
The results of the 2023 barometer clearly show intensified inflation and the resulting increased interest rate, as well as other international and Finnish economic slowdowns. After two positive years, the barometer for 2023 is clearly negative as a whole. For the year 2024, the barometer, on the other hand, expects a positive development. The annual shipping industry barometer was prepared by the research group of the University of Turku School of Economics under the leadership of assistant professor Tomi Solakivi.
Entrepreneurship Annual Report 2023 published
The Entrepreneurship Unit's Annual Report for 2023 has been published. Find out more about the activities of the unit and its staff in research, teaching and social interaction by clicking on the link below.
>>> Annual Report of Entrepreneurship 2023 (pdf)
University of Turku most popular university in Finland in spring's second joint application round
The University of Turku was the most popular university in this spring’s second joint application round for the Finnish-language degree programmes which ended on 27 March 2024. The total number of applicants to the University's Finnish-language degree programmes was 31,824, which is also the highest number of applicants ever to the University of Turku. The previous applicant record from 2021 (31,511) was broken in the last hour of the application round.
Registration to NCSB2024 is now open!
We warmly welcome you to join us at the NCSB2024, the 22nd Nordic Conference on Small Business Research! The conference will be organized between the 29 and 31 of May in Turku School of Economics. Among other things, the program will feature excellent keynote speeches by Professors Maija Renko and Eero Vaara, topical research from the field of entrepreneurship, and a memorable conference dinner at the beautiful Manilla Culture Factory.