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Re:Why Finland leads the world in flexible work by ptr on Thursday August 22, 2019 @03:57PM (#20771799)
What's your point? The Nordics have a relatively high contribution of "innovations", higher than other countries that don't work "half the hours".

Examples: Linux, Spotify, Unity, King, the radio base stations that your phone might be connected to, ...

Re:Why Finland leads the world in flexible work by verttii on Thursday August 22, 2019 @06:56PM (#20773125)
But even Linux was ultimately developed in USA. So was/is Unity. I don't know if Linux would've ever been the success it is had Linus Torvalds stayed in Finland developing it.

I'd hope we would have a big list of recent examples of major innovations from the Nordics but unfortunately nearly all the major digital products or innovations seem to be decades old. I can't think of almost any globally really promising Finnish digital startup right now.