HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS SMALL BUSINESS CENTER

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HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS SMALL BUSINESS
CENTER
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SMALL BUSINESS CENTER

• 27 YEARS FOR THE BENEFIT OF SMES
• Service center under the Helsinki School of
  Economics
• In Mikkeli since 1980
• In St. Petersburg, Russia, since 1993
• In Helsinki since 1994
• In Tallinn since 2004
• Ministry of Education reward
• UNIT OF HIGH QUALITY ADULT EDUCATION

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SMALL BUSINESS CENTER

• MAIN ACTIVITIES
• Promotes entrepreneurship, new business
  development and SME growth and development
• long and short SME business education programmes
• SME research, focused in entrepreneurship and
  small business
• New Business Centre SME incubator, Helsinki
  since 1997, Mikkeli since 2000

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SMALL BUSINESS CENTER

• Training programs 200 / year
• Participants 3000 / year
• Staff 55 persons
• Firms in the New Business Center 20 30
• Publications 10-20 / year
• EU funded projects since 1995
• European Social Fund (objectives 1-3) 10-20 /
  year
• Interreg 2-5 / year

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SMALL BUSINESS CENTERSt. Petersburg, Russia

• HSE/SBC office was established in St. Petersburg
  1993
• Activities in St. Petersburg / Russia
• Training and business development programs for
  Finnish and Russian participants
• Research activities
• Support and consulting services for the Finnish
  and Russian SMEs

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SMALL BUSINESS CENTERSt. Petersburg, Russia

• Training and business development programs for
  Finnish and Russian participants
• Business Assistant training program
• Training for the start-up entrepreneurs
• Business Development Experts Programme
• Interreg III A projects ENPI TACIS,
  South-East Finland Russia program
• -- Promoting subcontracting between southeastern
  Finland and St. Petersburg and Leningrad
  region, Russia, 2003-2007
• -- Innovation cooperation, 2003-2007
• -- Cooperation of women entrepreneurs across
  border, 2000-2007

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• BUSINESS ASSISTANT TRAINING PROGRAMME
• To Finnish-Russian companies sales and
  marketing, exports, etc
• Since year 1993
• 21 Programmes
• 410 Russians trained for companies
• Supported by Finnish Governement

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• Business Development Experts
• Pilot programme started 2007
• Competences in Business Development (Innovations,
  Business Coaching, Comparisons with Finnish
  Business Development Agencies

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SMALL BUSINESS CENTER St. Petersburg / Russia

• Training and development programs for the
  Finnish Participants
• 20 training programs / year
• 300 participants / year
• Training and development programs for the Russian
  participants
• 10 training programs / year
• business assistants, training since year 1993,
  400 participants
• entrepreneurs 200 managers of the companies 300
• Tailored services
• 60 companies / year

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SMALL BUSINESS CENTER

• EU PROJECTS BETWEEN FINLAND AND RUSSIA

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Innovation cooperation

• The aim of the project is to promote cooperation
  between innovation centers, technology centers,
  business incubators, research units and
  innovative companies in the area of South-East
  Finland and St. Petersburg and Leningrad oblast
  in Russia.
• The project is implemented between November 2003
  and December 2007. It is financed from the
  Interreg III A South-East Finland-Russia -program
  and the Finnish financing is provided by the
  Employment and Economic development centre of
  South-Savo.

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Innovation cooperation

• The project consists of the following activities
  
• research of innovative activity in North-West
  Russia
• creation of a network of technology centers,
  innovation centers, business incubators, research
  units and innovative companies in both project
  implementation countries
• contact forums for research and business contacts
  
• conducting organization/company based research
  and business contact tours to both countries
• support and development of cooperation

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Promoting of subcontracting between South-East
Finland and St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region
in Russia

• The overall aim is to promote the
  internationalization process of Finnish companies
  working in the wood processing and metal industry
  in the project area. The project is focused to
• help Finnish companies to find Russian partners
  for subcontracting
• develop the knowledge of subcontracting
  co-operation with Russian companies
• promote the companies business in Russia
• develop the knowledge of business environment in
  Russia having focus on subcontracting
• create database of Russian companies in metal
  industry and wood processing

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Cooperation of Women entrepreneurs across borders
2004-2007

• Cooperation between Finnish and Russian women
  entrepreneurs is considered as one of the most
  important fields to be promoted. During years
  2000-2004 already four programs have been carried
  out by the Ministry of Labour, the Ministry of
  Trade and Industry, the Employment and Economic
  Development center of South-Savo, the Small
  Business center of Helsinki School of Economics
  and Women's Entrepreneurship Center and Social
  and Economical Institute of St. Petersburg.

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Cooperation of Women entrepreneurs across borders
2004-2007

• The project "Cooperation of women entrepreneurs
  across borders (2004-2006) has the following
  aims
• to promote and develop cooperation between
  Finnish and Russian women entrepreneurs
• to widen networking
• to improve skills required in international
  cooperation and business
• to support the planning and implementation of
  cooperation
• to strengthen research and expert cooperation
  concerning women entrepreneurship

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ACADEMIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP

• COOPERATION WITH UNIVERSITIES IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP
  AND INNOVATION EDUCATION - BENCHMARKING
• LINKING FINNISH-RUSSIAN STUDENTS IN YOUNG
  BUSINESS ACADEMY
• RESEARCH COOPERATION
• INTERNET BASED TRAINING PROGRAMMES

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SMALL BUSINESS CENTER

• HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
• SMALL BUSINESS CENTER
• Pentti Mustalampi, director
• tel. [phone]
• e-mail pentti.mustalampi_at_pyk.hkkk.fi
• www.hse.fi/smallbusinesscenter