R&D financing decisions of Tekes and the Academy of Finland

Tekes' R&D funding 1995-2004 (mill. €)

	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Industrial R&D loans to companies	41	34	47	45	45	45	47	46	40	31
Capital loans for R&D to companies	-	1	16	29	34	34	34	34	34	39
Industrial R&D grants to companies	132	109	137	146	168	154	160	157	156	165
Research funding	86	89	132	140	153	140	146	144	161	172
Total	259	232	331	361	400	373	387	381	392	407

Number of projects
Industrial R&D projects	1 056	1 010	1 358	1 393	1 376	1 302	1 339	1 219	1 395	1 464
Public research projects	1 008	637	973	1 061	1 028	995	922	798	801	778
Total	2 064	1 647	2 331	2 454	2 404	2 297	2 261	2 017	2 196	2 242

In 1999-2004 coordination of programmes was contracted and does not show in the R&D funding statistics.
Academy of Finland funding 1995-2004 (mill. €)
	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Research projects and other support	30	49	51	57	63	68	76	71	79	87
Research programmes and targeted application	7	20	23	27	29	31	40	22	43	25
Centres of excellence programme			6	3	25		16	30	0	18
Researcher posts	17	13	16	20	21	24	16	16	20	23
Researcher training	8	11	21	17	13	17	19	24	27	39
International cooperation	10	6	16	17	15	17	17	14	15	16
Total	73	99	133	140	166	157	184	176	184	208

Source: Tekes (the National Technology Agency), Academy of Finland

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