Game Industry Funding Clinic

The game industry is the largest and most significant sector within Finland’s creative industries. Its globally successful companies have made it a multi billion export industry and an attractive investment target, whose development and competitive advantage are also of major importance to the national economy.

Business Finland’s Creative Immersive Experiences program and Neogames invite game industry companies and research organisations to participate in a funding clinic that provides an overview of the current state and growth opportunities of the Finnish game industry and presents Business Finland’s key funding instruments as applied to the game industry. These include R&D loans and grants for companies, new Sprint funding and Co-Innovation funding, as well as the Creative Industries Call 2026 and the Creative Immersive Experiences program.

The presentation part of the clinic will be organised in a hybrid format, and participants attending on site will have the opportunity to book one2one sparring sessions with Business Finland advisors.

Program

12:45 Registration & coffee
13:00 Opening words, Kari Komulainen, Director, Business Finland
13:10 Finnish Game Industry – Where Are We Now? Koopee Hiltunen, Director, Neogames
13:30 Business Finland funding for game industry companies, Kari Korhonen, Chief Advisor, Business Finland
13:50 Co Innovation funding for research projects, Anna Nikku, Chief Advisor, Business Finland
14:10 Discussion
14:30–15:45 Opportunity for company specific sparring sessions