• 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

Finland has a high number of patent applications in relation to the country’s population of 5.4 million.

Totally 1833 applications were filed in Finland in 2010 and 1731 of these were from Finnish inventors. Totally 923 patents were granted and 717 of these were for Finnish inventors. However, the long-run trend in patenting has been that the significance of applications filed directly in Finland has diminished as the international patenting (PCT) has increased. In 2010, there were 12216 PRH and 34406 EPO granted patents in force.

The main technology areas filed by the domestic inventors in 2010 were the road –hydraulic and thermal engineering; processing and treatment and industrial chemistry. Most of the domestic patent applications or granted patents in Greater Helsinki Region are related to the IPC section of performing operations or transporting.

Finland has more resident patent filings per million population than some of the other Nordic countries such as Sweden, Denmark, and Estonia:

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