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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

 

 

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Last updated 21.12.2005