{"id":965450,"date":"2025-10-01T09:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=965450"},"modified":"2025-10-01T09:23:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:53:59","slug":"finland-turned-a-gaming-hobby-into-a-e3-6-billion-export-business-and-india-has-a-lot-to-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/01\/finland-turned-a-gaming-hobby-into-a-e3-6-billion-export-business-and-india-has-a-lot-to-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland turned a gaming hobby into a \u20ac3.6 billion export business \u2014 and India has a lot to learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picture this: a hobby that took root in a small Nordic nation in the 1970s and 80s has grown into a \u20ac3.6 billion export industry\u2013touching the lives of one billion people worldwide. That is Finland\u2019s gaming story. <\/p>\n<p>For a country of just 5.5 million citizens, the scale of this achievement is staggering. Today, the Finnish gaming industry generates nearly USD 3.9 billion annually, with 98% of revenues coming from abroad, making it the country\u2019s largest exports sector. <\/p>\n<p>The transformation was neither accidental nor did it happen overnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture this: a hobby that took root in a small Nordic nation in the 1970s and 80s has grown into a \u20ac3.6 billion export industry\u2013touching the lives of one billion people worldwide. That is Finland\u2019s gaming story. For a country of just 5.5 million citizens, the scale of this achievement is staggering. Today, the Finnish gaming industry generates nearly USD 3.9 billion annually, with 98% of revenues coming from abroad, making it the country\u2019s largest exports sector. The transformation was neither accidental nor did it happen overnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}