http://www.stat.fi/til/ttt_en.html Latest statistical information from Statistics Finland on Science, Technology and Information Society en http://www.stat.fi/favicon.png http://www.stat.fi/til/ttt_en.html 32 32 http://www.stat.fi/til/tthv/2011/tthv_2011_2013-03-21_tie_001_en.html According to Statistics Finland, the employment rate of those with tertiary level degrees was 83.8 per cent in 2010. The figure was 15 percentage points higher than for people aged 15 to 64, on average. The employment rate has, as a rule, improved in all levels of education up to the recession in 2008, after which the employment rate of those with lower-level tertiary qualifications, in particular, decreased temporarily. The employment rate of doctors has remained high, at over 90 per cent throughout the decade. The employment rate of those with polytechnic degrees and higher-level university degrees is also at a record level. Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/tthv/2011/tthv_2011_2013-03-21_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/tkker/2013/tkker_2013_2013-02-27_tie_001_en.html In the 2013 Government Budget, the total funding of research and development goes up to EUR 2,002 million. The Budget appropriations and outlays for research and development fall EUR 53 million short of the previous year. According to Statistics Finland, government RD expenditure as a proportion of overall government spending exclusive of debt servicing is estimated to be 3.8 per cent. Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/tkker/2013/tkker_2013_2013-02-27_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/icte/2012/icte_2012_2012-11-27_tie_001_en.html Mobile connections to the Internet are used very generally in enterprises with at least ten employees. Enterprises provided nearly third of their personnel with a portable device and a mobile connection to the Internet. These data were collected by Statistics Finland with an inquiry in spring 2012 and they apply to enterprises with at least ten employees. Tue, 27 Nov 2012 07:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/icte/2012/icte_2012_2012-11-27_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/sutivi/2012/sutivi_2012_2012-11-07_tie_001_en.html Internet use is slowly becoming more general in Finland. In 2012, the share of Internet users in the population aged 16 to 74 grew by just one percentage point to 90 per cent. The number of online shoppers is growing. Two-thirds of Finnish residents bought or ordered something via the web during the past year. One half of Finnish residents followed some social network service on the Internet. This appears from the survey on the Use of information and communications technology in spring 2012. Wed, 07 Nov 2012 07:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/sutivi/2012/sutivi_2012_2012-11-07_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/pat/2011/pat_2011_2012-11-01_tie_001_en.html The number of European patents granted to domestic manufacturing enterprises fell by 14 per cent from the previous year in 2011. A total of 573 European patents were granted to enterprises and associations in 2011 while the respective number in 2010 was 657. The number of enterprises having received patents was also lower than in the previous year. These data derive from statistics on patenting in 2011 published by Statistics Finland. Thu, 01 Nov 2012 07:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/pat/2011/pat_2011_2012-11-01_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/tkke/2011/tkke_2011_2012-10-31_tie_001_en.html RD expenditure exceeded EUR 7 billion in 2011. The RD expenditure of business enterprises amounted to EUR 5.0 billion, that of the higher education sector to EUR 1.4 billion and the rest of the public sector to EUR 700 million. Growth from the previous year amounted to EUR 192 million. According to data calculated by Statistics Finland, almost all of the growth came from business enterprises where expenditure on RD increased by EUR 193 million from 2010. Although RD expenditure grew, its share of GDP turned to decline and was 3.78 per cent in 2011. Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/tkke/2011/tkke_2011_2012-10-31_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/inn/2010/inn_2010_2012-06-07_tie_001_en.html Forty-six per cent of enterprises had innovation activity related to products and processes in 2008-2010. Innovations are developed throughout the value chain, but the most frequent reporters of innovation activity were system suppliers. Altogether 15 per cent of the total turnover of enterprises in 2010 came from product innovations launched on the market during 2008-2010. These data derive from a survey of Statistics Finland concerning innovation activity among enterprises. Thu, 07 Jun 2012 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/inn/2010/inn_2010_2012-06-07_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/tthv/2010/tthv_2010_2012-03-22_tie_001_en.html Corrected on 26 March 2012. The correction is indicated in red. Was previously non-tertiary. According to Statistics Finland, 1,166,000 persons in Finland had tertiary level educational qualifications in 2009, which is nearly 30 per cent of the countrys population aged 16 to 74. Throughout the 2000s, the share has been growing at the annual rate of half-a-percentage point. Womens share in the highly educated population was 57 per cent. This share, too, has been growing steadily by some two percentage points in a decade. A person with at least post-secondary, non-higher vocational qualification is classified as highly educated. Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/tthv/2010/tthv_2010_2012-03-22_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/tkker/2012/tkker_2012_2012-02-24_tie_001_en.html In the 2012 Government Budget, the total appropriations and outlays for research and development amount to EUR 2,010 million. According to Statistics Finland, RD funding falls by nearly EUR 55 million from the previous year. The reductions mainly concern the administrative branches of the Ministry of Employment and the Economy, and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. The share of public RD funding of GDP falls to 1.0 per cent. Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/tkker/2012/tkker_2012_2012-02-24_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/icte/2011/icte_2011_2011-11-24_tie_001_en.html Open source code software is used very generally in enterprises with at least ten employees. At least some open source software is used by 79 per cent of enterprises.These data were collected with an inquiry by Statistics Finland in spring 2011 and they apply to enterprises with at least ten employees. Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/icte/2011/icte_2011_2011-11-24_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/pat/2010/pat_2010_2011-11-03_tie_001_en.html The number of patent applications made in Finland decreased by around one hundred from the previous year in 2010. The number went down for both domestic and foreign applicants. By contrast, the number of patents granted in Finland to domestic patentees, similarly as the number of European patents granted to Finnish enterprises and associations, remained on level with the previous year. The number of U.S. patents granted to Finnish enterprises and associations grew by one quarter to about 1,250 patents. These data derive from statistics on patenting in 2010 published by Statistics Finland. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 07:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/pat/2010/pat_2010_2011-11-03_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/sutivi/2011/sutivi_2011_2011-11-02_tie_001_en.html Corrected on 14 June 2012. The corrections are indicated in red. The Internet is a daily tool for increasingly more people. According to Statistics Finlands survey, as many as 89 per cent of those aged 16 to 74 use the Internet and three out of four use it daily. Forty-three per cent of persons entitled to vote used an election engine before the latest elections. Smartphones are purchased most by persons aged under 45 and men, on the other hand. Wed, 02 Nov 2011 07:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/sutivi/2011/sutivi_2011_2011-11-02_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/tkke/2010/tkke_2010_2011-10-27_tie_001_en.html In 2010 around EUR 185 million more was used on research and development than one year previously. According to Statistics Finland, the majority of the growth, 77 per cent, was directed to the higher education sector. EUR 115 million of the EUR 142 million increase recorded for the higher education sector came from the growth in external funding. The change in research made with basic State funding thus remained minor. Thu, 27 Oct 2011 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/tkke/2010/tkke_2010_2011-10-27_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/tthv/2009/tthv_2009_2011-03-24_tie_001_en.html In 2008, 85 per cent of those with tertiary level degrees were employed, which is 14 percentage points higher than the employment rate of total population. The situation was best for those with doctorate level degrees, whose employment rate was over 90 per cent. The difference between the employment rate of women and men was small, only good one percentage point, while in total population it was three percentage points. Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/tthv/2009/tthv_2009_2011-03-24_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/tkker/2011/tkker_2011_2011-02-22_tie_001_en.html The total funding of research and development goes up to EUR 2,065 million in the 2011 Government Budget. According to Statistics Finland, RD funding will grow by EUR 76 million from the previous year, by nearly four per cent. The increases will focus on universities' research funding. The proportion of funds allocated to RD activities of overall government spending exclusive of debt servicing is 4.3 per cent. Tue, 22 Feb 2011 07:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/tkker/2011/tkker_2011_2011-02-22_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/icte/2010/icte_2010_2010-11-25_tie_001_en.html A total of 68 per cent of enterprises were connected via mobile broadband in spring 2010. In all, 58 per cent of enterprises had a mobile broadband connection with a laptop and 56 per cent with a mobile phone. These data were collected with an inquiry in spring 2010 and they apply to enterprises with at least ten employees. Thu, 25 Nov 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/icte/2010/icte_2010_2010-11-25_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/pat/2009/pat_2009_2010-11-11_tie_001_en.html The number of applications made by Finnish enterprises and associations for domestic patents remained on level with the previous year in 2009. The largest number of patent applications was made in the metal and engineering industry. By contrast, the number of domestic patents granted to Finnish enterprises and associations fell slightly from the previous year in 2009. The number of European patents granted to enterprises and associations also fell short of the previous years level. One-half of the European patents were granted in the electronics industry. These data derive from statistics on patenting in 2009 published by Statistics Finland. Thu, 11 Nov 2010 07:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/pat/2009/pat_2009_2010-11-11_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/tkke/2009/tkke_2009_2010-10-28_tie_001_en.html Business enterprises decreased their expenditure on research and development (RD) activities by good EUR 250 million from the previous year. Expenditure has never before gone down during the entire time period starting from 1971 over which Statistics Finland has compiled statistics on RD investments. RD expenditure decreased in several industries, but by most, or by around EUR 90 million, in the electronics industry. In 2009, business enterprises RD expenditure totalled EUR 4.85 billion. Thu, 28 Oct 2010 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/tkke/2009/tkke_2009_2010-10-28_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/sutivi/2010/sutivi_2010_2010-10-26_tie_001_en.html Correction 26 October 2010 at 10 am. In the first table: Prevalence of Internet usage and certain purposes of use in 2010, corrections due to rounding of figures for percentage of population are indicated in red. Tue, 26 Oct 2010 06:00:00 GMT http://www.stat.fi/til/sutivi/2010/sutivi_2010_2010-10-26_tie_001_en.html