• Greater Helsinki
  • A compact, green and healthy city
  • Highly educated professionals
  • Population and workforce
  • Strategic location between East and West
  • The economy of Greater Helsinki
• Finland
  • International accessibility
  • Population and workforce
  • The Finnish Economy
• Baltic Sea Region
  • Population and workforce
  • The economy of the Baltic Sea region
• The Economy
  • Driving force of the Finnish economy
  • Environmental Performance
• Costs
  • Additional costs
  • Salary costs and contributions
• Ecosystems
  • Demographics of business
  • Global corporate B2B brands in Finland
  • International business environment
  • Key ecosystems
    • Cleantech
    • Design & Creativity
    • ICT
    • KIBS, Knowledge Intensive Business Services
    • Life Sciences
    • Logistics
  • Venture Capital
• Workforce
  • Employment
  • Level of education
    • Skills
  • Productivity
• R&D&I (Research, Development & Innovation)
  • Benchmarking the Finnish innovation system
  • Independent research institutes located in Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa
  • Patents
    • Domestic companies with the highest number of patent applications filed in 2010
  • R&D expenditure
  • R&D&I support organizations in Greater Helsinki Region
  • Research institutions and communities of science
  • The basic science and innovation profile of Finland as a radar graph
  • The objectives of Finnish innovation policy and funding of R&D 2011-2015
  • Universities and universities of applied sciences
• Infrastructure
  • Business districts
  • Commuting times
  • Well developed and functioning infrastructure
• Taxes

Besides faculties, high quality research and development is conducted in the research institutes or centers of universities. The research institutes can belong to only one university or they may be joint platforms of several organizations. Research insitutes can also have members outside the university sector. In addition, institutes often operate in or close to universities’ facilities. The equipment of some of the research institutes can be considered as part of the national research infrastructure (Micronova) and institutes can have other nationally important tasks as well: e.g. Helsinki Institute of Physics is responsible for the Finnish research collaboration with CERN.

• Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland,
  Molecular, cellular and etiological basis of human diseases

• Helsinki Institute for Information Technology,
  Algorithmic data analysis, algorithmic systems, future internet and network society
• Institute of Biotechnology,
  Cell and molecular biology, developmental biology, genomen biology and structural biology and biophysics
• Helsinki Institute of Physics,
  Theoretical physics and experimental subatomic physics; related technology development
• Neuroscience Center,
  Molecular, cellular and developmental neuroscience, cognitive and systems neuroscience and nervous systems diseases
• Sensor Center Ltd,
  Contract development of sensor technologies for business enterprises
• Micronova, (Research center of Aalto University and VTT)
  Micro and nanoelectronics, microsystems, microwave & millimeter wave technlogies, nanotechnology, photonics & optics, printed electronics and sensors & detectors
• Business, Innovation, Technology Research Center, (Research center of Aalto University)
  Business, innovation and management research
• Institute of Intelligent Power Electronics, (Research center of Aalto University)
  Power & industrial electronics, electric drives, electromechanics, control engineering
• Low Temperature Laboratory, (Research center of Aalto University)
  Ultralow temperature physics, nanophysics (e.g.nanoelectronic systems), cryoengineering; neuromagnetic brain studies
• Millimetre Wave Laboratory of Finland, (Joint laboratory of Aalto University and VTT)
  Millimetre wave technology, External Laboratory of the European Space Agency
• BioMag Laboratory, (Joint laboratory of Aalto University, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital)
  Magnetoencephalography, magnetocardiography and transcranial magnetic stimulation
• Kumpula Space Centre, (Joint R&D platform organization for the Department of Physics of University of Helsinki and the Finnish Meteorological Institute)
  Space sciences and technologies
• The Finnish Centre for Nanocellulosic Technologies, (Research consortium of VTT, Aalto University and UPM Oy)
  Industrial scale production process for nanocellulose and new uses of the material

Sources: organizations’ webpages