Resources for the entrepreneur

Researching the competition / the partners

 * Finnish Business ID search ( search by freetext, by Businesss ID ( y-tunnus, y-luku ) and by Types of business entity ( yritysmuoto )


 * Virre.prh.fi company statement search engine and web-shoppe prices vary from 0,68€ to around 6€ per document. Payment in web-shoppe with Finnish web-bank usercodes.


 * Finnish law and regulations online


 * List of company registers may help in researching foreign based businesses.

Resources for starting a business

 * Board of Patents and Registration offers advisory lawyers with non-disclosure promise free-of-charge to help inventors and innovators succeed in Finland. At the PRH premises all documents that cost in Virre are available for viewing free-of-charge but copies and print-outs are exuberantly priced at 1€ / page.

Going international ?
TMView allows one to quickly research trademarks europe-wide free-of-charge. Contains almost 7,000,000 trademark registrations.