In the 2010 Government Budget, the total appropriations and outlays for research and development activities amount to EUR 2,055 million. According to Statistics Finland, R&D funding increases by EUR 155 million from the previous year. At the same time, the share of public R&D funding of GDP is estimated to rise to 1.17 per cent.

In 2009 companies in Finland applied for a total of 682 million euros R&D funding from Tekes. The amount is one-third more than in 2008. The large increase demonstrates the willingness of companies to modernise in order to overcome the recession.

Recent research indicates that school burnout among adolescents is shared with parental work burnout.

On Tuesday 1 December 2009, the Finnish Research and Innovation Council, chaired by the Prime Minister, adopted a strategy document concerning the internationalisation of education, research and innovation (ERI). The aims and policy lines are set for the period 2010–2015. In Finland, internationalisation has not advanced particularly far as compared with the major partner and competitor countries. Thus, more active engagement and influence in international fora is needed. In order to respond to the global competition for knowledge and capital demands, profound internationalisation of the domestic ERI environments is required. Success in this entails wide-ranging renewal to promote openness in the society and genuine internationalisation in every day life.

Domestic patenting by enterprises and associations declined steadily from 2000 to 2005, when enterprises filed 1,371 domestic patent applications. The decline halted in 2006, when slight growth was recorded, but in 2007 the number of applications fell again and totalled 1,349. In 2008, the number of applications began to show growth again and enterprises or associations filed 1,397 domestic patent applications. In 2008, the number of enterprises or associations having filed patent applications rose to 512 whereas in 2007 they numbered 467.