• 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

According to the Research and innovation Council of Finland (RIC) the main objective of education, research and innovation policy is to strengthen Finland’s position among the leading knowledge and competence-based countries. Finland’s long-term strategy is to secure a sustainable and balanced social and economic development. The general requirement for this is growth in productivity in all sectors, industries or even individual actors of business.

In addition, the education, research and innovation policy is developed for supporting economic growth and the positive development of national economy, the sustainable renewal of society and the well-being of Finnish citizens.

Besides the national strategy guidelines, a full development programme for 2011-2015 has been prepared by the RIC. The actions of the development programme aim for creating higher quality in education and research; support the creation of successful innovations in addition to the fostering of the creation of new jobs and growth enterprises.

The aim for funding is to maintain the total R&D funding share of GDP at 4 per cent in the 2010s. The public investment should be increased so that the level of 1.2 percent of GDP would be reached by the year 2015.  Thus, the amount of R&D funding will be increased by minimum of 4.0 percent per annum in real terms.