Effectiveness
Sustainable entrepreneurship and new work
Each year, Enterprise Agencies support more than 15 000 people interested in entrepreneurship. Approximately half of them start a business – and some start entrepreneur-like operations through light entrepreneurship services, for example.
Our guidance lowers the threshold for entrepreneurship and strengthens the vitality of new companies. Our network’s more than 30 years of experience and repeated effectiveness studies show that free business advisory services make a difference.
Demonstrated effectiveness
The Enterprise Agency network has studied the effectiveness of its services in several studies – in 2019, 2022 and 2025.
Key results:
- 80% of companies that have used the guidance of an Enterprise Agency are still in operation in five years. (Compare: only about 50% of all new companies continue to operate in five years).
- Each company established through an Enterprise Agency creates an average of 1.3 person years already in the year of establishment. After five years, the average employment rate is 2.6 person years.
- Annually, this equals up to 10 000 new jobs in Finland.
