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Patent applications filed in Finland by field of technology in 2004

Field of technology Total % Domestic % Foreign %
Mining and quarrying, civil engineering, construction materials, air-conditioning, waste management 234 10.5 224 11.1 10 4.7
Manufacture of paper, printing 176 7.9 158 7.9 18 8.4
Textiles, clothes, leisure, textile industry machinery 63 2.8 60 3.0 3 1.4
Biomedicine 58 2.6 53 2.6 5 2.3
Agriculture, food, beverages, tobacco 77 3.5 73 3.6 4 1.9
Biotechnology and genetic engineering, pharmaceutics 78 3.5 69 3.4 9 4.2
Organic chemistry, petrochemistry 28 1.3 14 0.7 14 6.5
Polymeric materials (polymer chemistry) 8 0.4 7 0.3 1 0.5
Manufacture and application of polymers 24 1.1 19 0.9 5 2.3
Inorganic chemistry 41 1.8 39 1.9 2 0.9
Coating, crystal growth 17 0.8 13 0.6 4 1.9
Process technology, separation and combination of substances 105 4.7 99 4.9 6 2.8
Mechanical technology, machine construction, weapons 84 3.8 81 4.0 3 1.4
Material treatment, working machines 114 5.1 104 5.2 10 4.7
Treatment of goods, transfer gears, robots 157 7.1 153 7.6 4 1.9
Transport, traffic 83 3.7 80 4.0 3 1.4
Motors, turbines, pumps 61 2.7 52 2.6 9 4.2
Electric power, nuclear technology 41 1.8 38 1.9 3 1.4
Electrical equipment 90 4.0 81 4.0 9 4.2
Lasers 1 0.0 1 0.0 - -
Optical equipment 21 0.9 19 0.9 2 0.9
Instruments, control gear 62 2.8 59 2.9 3 1.4
Metrology, sensors 111 5.0 106 5.3 5 2.3
Computing 97 4.4 89 4.4 8 3.7
Data storage 3 0.1 1 0.0 2 0.9
Telecommunications 321 14.4 255 12.7 66 30.7
Image transfer 19 0.9 14 0.7 5 2.3
Electronics, electronic components 51 2.3 49 2.4 2 0.9
Total 2,225 100.0 2,010 100.0 215 100.0

 

 


Last updated 21.12.2005

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Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Patenting [e-publication].
ISSN=1797-3023. 2004, Patent applications filed in Finland by field of technology in 2004 . Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 29.3.2024].
Access method: http://www.stat.fi/til/pat/2004/pat_2004_2005-12-21_tau_003_en.html