Business Membership

Design entrepreneur, our experts will help you when you are thinking about starting a company or want to develop your business.

Business membership can be applied by a company or business owner operating in the field of design or applied arts, or a company that significantly contributes to the design industry. The requirement is that the company employs at least one person who meets the membership criteria for an Ornamo personal member.

Corporate members undertake to comply with Ornamo’s ethical guidelines (in Finnish).

What do I get as a business member?

As a business member of Ornamo, you are part of a community of 3,000 design professionals, events and legal advisory services. As a business member, you can join the Academic Entrepreneurs network (AKY) and receive a significant discount on the services of the Federation of Finnish Entrepreneurs (Suomen yrittäjät). New event formats, communications and meetings for business members are coming.

Advice on company contracts is only provided to business members.

Member benefits

  • Ornamo’s membership letter (not otherwise available)
  • Possibility to participate in member events
  • Contract bases of companies
  • 1 sub-banner for membership letter 200€ (otherwise 270€)
  • Advertising and visibility of jobs in Design Jobs is free (otherwise 520€/ad)

Legal services

Ornamo offers legal advisory services in company legal affairs, such as contracts, IPR, commercialization and company law.

2-6 consultation times (based on size) are included in the business membership.

Lexia’s experts assist Ornamo’s business members in protecting, managing and commercialising intangible rights. Lexia’s extensive IPR expertise includes long-term experience in the creative industries as well as international expertise.

Legal services at a discounted price.

Dottir helps design companies ensure that innovations and the result of their creative work are not wasted or left untapped. We help Ornamo’s members obtain protection and defence as well as benefit internationally from IPR, as well as draw up various commercial agreements that support business.

Dottir offers services to Ornamo’s business members at a discounted price.

Insurance

LähiTapiola aims to enable staff well-being and safety at your company and to help your company manage business-related risks – whether they concern personnel, assets or operations. We secure the continuation of business operations for entrepreneurs and companies, so the companies can focus on their core business. Contact LocalTapiola or request a quote: teemu.pietilainen@lahitapiola.fi

Other services and benefits

AKY – Akavalaiset styrtäjät / Suomen Yrittäjät offers an entrepreneur’s service package for affordable membership. The service package opens access to the membership benefits of Suomen Yrittäjie (not including membership in its local associations), and it includes e.g. discounts on Fennia’s insurance, small business services and e-commerce platform as well as trainings, entrepreneurship events, advisory service and document bank.

The price of the service package for Ornamo company members: 140€ / year (normal price scaled according to company size).

You can obtain and download the service package directly from Suomen Yrittäjät website.

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Join ornamo

Apply to become a member of Ornamo now.

We process applications continuously, except during the holiday periods in July and at the turn of the year. Membership begins when you receive confirmation by email and ends when you notify us in writing. The first membership invoice covers the end of the current year. Membership automatically continues for the next year and membership is invoiced once a year in January.

“Becoming a business member was pretty much a matter of course. IPR and contract issues require legal expertise and we are delighted with the easy assistance we get through Ornamo.”

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Petra Ilonen 2021

ASK about Business membership

Petra Ilonen, Design advisor
petra.ilonen(at)ornamo.fi
p. +358 43 211 2723