Finland's Ministry of Education has released Staying Power to Finnish Cultural Exports, an overview of the present state of Finland's cultural exports - obstacles, threats, success factors, potential and areas which need special promotion. The report explores solutions and actions for developing the conditions for Finnish cultural exports, its networked structures and forms of cooperation, focused support, special investments and incentives so as to match the increasingly globalized demand for culture in the world today. Material utilised includes:

Literary material: monographs and articles;

Personal interviews with actors in cultural exports;

Materials supplied by the actors in cultural exports on cultural exports in their respective sectors of the arts and culture;

• The websites of actors in cultural exports, as well as administrators and funding bodies in the field;

Replies from diplomatic missions to queries by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;

Materials from meetings and seminars;

Statistics Finland's statistics on culture and mass communications and statistics from the various actors themselves; and more. To access the report online as a PDF, CLICK HERE.

www.minedu.fi/julkaisut/kulttuuri/2005/opm09/opm09.pdf