The home-grown startups in Finland are now expanding from conventional information technology to new lucrative fields like education, health, virtual reality and artificial intelligence. Venture capital firm Index Partners, one of Europe's largest technology investors based in London and San Francisco, is convinced Europe will get its own star companies in the not-so-distant future. "The skills and money created by Nokia into Finland is the basis of the current boom." Apart from Gore and Prince William, other European royalty — Prince Daniel of Sweden and Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands — were due to visit. And a group of Nordic startups from the Slush venue in Helsinki range the Nasdaq stock market's opening bell in New York remotely.

Source: ABC News November 30, 2017 10:07 UTC