IP: Finland Diary 5 Jan 1996 -- a small addition

[Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

> From the Director


> Next day I met with the Director of the Information Systems portion of


> Tekes. It is their Governmental organization which funds industrial and


> academic high risk applied technology research -- the Finish Academy funds


> pure basic research. Finland is in the first group relative to governmental


> funding of R&D as a percentage of GNP. A large part of their money goes to


> information related activities. They fund little military research and said


> there is very little of that done in Finland. The Director pointed out that


> the EC contribution to European research is small compared to the national


> contributions and when I said it was, in my opinion there to build a


> European Science culture, he agreed completely.




Finland has moved to the first "group" as for the _total_ R&D input. However,


it is fact the share of the private sector that has risen even more rapidly


than that of the public sector. Compared to most OECD countries, and especially


the US, the governmental funding is not that high at all.