Accepting the prize, the Irish singer said she was proud to be an independent artist, because "I'm not sure what a boardroom of old guys would have known what to do with this song about bodily autonomy and reclaiming it".
Data suggests it still has a long way to go to catch up with neighbouring Sweden, long the Nordic darling of the European start-up scene.It is home to
including Spotify, payments platform Klarna and game developer King.In Startup Blink's ecosystem ranking Sweden ranks second in Europe after the UK, and top in the EU.In the last decade it has attracted more than $29bn in funding compared to just over $8bn in Finland, according to the annual
by investment company Atomico."I love Finland's bold approach," says Charlotte Ekelund, deputy CEO of Sting, a non-profit organisation that helps develop start-ups in Stockholm. However she believes Finland is still years behind Sweden in terms of pulling in capital and developing its ecosystem.
"We observe some of the things that the Finnish ecosystem is doing now, Sting was part of driving 10 or 15 years ago here - co-working spaces, [and] new organisations in the ecosystem that can support in different ways."
Mikael Pentikainen, CEO of the Federation of Finnish Enterprises, says the country's government is currently losing support amongst entrepreneurs despite its pro-start-up and pro-business approach.Wendt also appeared in several movies such as Dreamscape, Forever Young and Gung Ho.
He also appeared as the father of a boy played by Macaulay Culkin in Michael Jackson's Black or White, which was released in 1991.
He had been married to fellow actor Bernadette Birkett since 1978, with whom he had three children.He was also the uncle of actor and comedian Jason Sudeikis, who is most recently known for playing the title character in the sports comedy Ted Lasso.