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About Business Joensuu
Business Joensuu helps businesses take the next step—whether you are exploring your first business idea, seeking a new direction, planning growth, expanding internationally, making investments, or looking for the right location for your business.
Our mission is simple: to make entrepreneurship easier, accelerate sustainable business growth, and ensure companies find the right people, networks, expertise, and opportunities at exactly the right time.
Owned by the City of Joensuu, we are the region’s business development company—but above all, we are people working alongside businesses. Our vision is bold: Making Joensuu the most business-friendly city in Finland.
We help businesses start and develop their operations, access funding and investment opportunities, find talent and build the right teams, connect with strategic partners and networks, and identify new markets and growth opportunities. If your company is planning to invest, expand, or relocate to the Joensuu Region or Central Karelia, we help you find the right business premises, office space, industrial plots, local partners, and a smooth landing in the region.
In Joensuu, collaboration goes beyond words. Businesses, research organizations, educational institutions, and the public sector work together in practical, low-threshold cooperation. When the right people connect, new innovations, investments, expertise, and growth follow. We believe that businesses succeed faster when they do not have to build alone.
People often say there is a special mindset in Joensuu. And we recognize it.
It means not waiting for the perfect moment. It means taking action, helping each other, solving challenges together, and finishing what we start. We work with genuine North Karelian heart, practical expertise, and a strong can-do attitude—person to person.
Our impact is visible in new businesses, new jobs, new investments, stronger regional competitiveness, and sustainable economic growth.
Our services also include Tiedepuisto facility and event services and VisitKarelia. Tiedepuisto offers modern office spaces, event services, and a vibrant business community for companies of all sizes. VisitKarelia strengthengs tourism, destination marketing, and regional attractiveness in Finland and internationally
Supporting Businesses Across 9 Municipalities
Our services support businesses in the region of Joensuu and Central Karelia — 9 municipalities, 125,000 residents and over 7,500 businesses forming a strong foundation for entrepreneurship, investment, and future growth.
Our business, investment, and location services support companies across Joensuu, Heinävesi, Ilomantsi, Kitee, Liperi, Outokumpu, Polvijärvi, Rääkkylä, and Tohmajärvi.
Together with the City of Joensuu, regional municipalities, businesses, and our partner networks, we strengthen the competitiveness of Eastern Finland and build an environment where it is easy to do business, invest, work, and build a life.
Our Experts Are Here for You
Our experts are just one phone call away.
Call us: +358 10 419 8011
Service hours: Monday–Friday, klo 8:00–16:00
Calling 010 numbers is charged at the standard phone rate (lnc/mnc).
Contact us
See personnel contact info.
Call us to Business Joensuu service number
+358 10 419 8011, Monday – Friday 8:00 - 16:00.
Tiedepuisto Reception Service
puh. +358 10 419 8010
info@businessjoensuu.fi
Tiedepuisto Meeting Services
+358 10 419 8020
meetings@businessjoensuu.fi
Calling 010 numbers is charged at the standard phone rate (lnc/mnc).
Business Joensuu Board of Directors
The owner of Business Joensuu, the City of Joensuu, appoints the company’s Board of Directors. Board members bring broad expertise, strategic insight, and valuable networks from business, entrepreneurship, education, employment, regional development, and public decision-making.
Board Composition:
- Jere Penttilä, City Mayor (Chair of the Board)
- Mari Ojalammi, Senior HR Specialist
- Simo Kettunen, Sales Director, Entrepreneur
- Kaija Majoinen, Member of the City of Joensuu Council
- Sami Tuupanen, Chief Information Officer
- Mirva Nevalainen, Entrepreneur
- Teemu Purmonen, Entrepreneur
Projects Supporting Business Development and Growth
Business Joensuu develops and coordinates regional, national, and international projects that help businesses grow, innovate, and expand into international markets. Most of our projects are funded through European Union structural funds. Explore our projects.
We Are a Green Office
Business Joensuu is a WWF Green Office certified workplace.
WWF Green Office is an environmental management system developed by World Wide Fund for Nature, helping workplaces reduce their environmental impact, achieve cost savings, and contribute to climate action.
Learn more about Green Office system on WWF’s website.
Security
Security at Joensuu Science Park is managed by the security team of Business Joensuu, the owner of the Science Park facilities. The team has established a security policy that defines security objectives, responsibilities, and operating practices.
Security is an essential part of Business Joensuu’s strategy and service quality. It is fully integrated into daily operations. The diverse needs of tenants, customers, and partners set high standards for security management and continuous development.
The Security Manager of Joensuu Science Park is Mikko Naakka.
Key Responsibilities of the Security Team
- Defining security policies and principles
- Setting security objectives
- Developing operational models and procedures
- Planning and monitoring operational security activities
- Preparing security guidelines and documentation
- Organising and coordinating security operations
The security team operates directly under the management of Business Joensuu. The management team approves security policies, principles, objectives, and action plans, which are then implemented as part of normal operations across different areas of responsibility.
The security team meets three times a year, or whenever needed.
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