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Published: 21 February 2019

Government R&D funding increases in the state budget for 2019

According to Statistics Finland, appropriations for research and development in the budget increase by EUR 107.9 million from the year before. In the state budget 2019, the total appropriations for research and development activities amount to EUR 1,991.1 million. The share of public research funding in gross domestic product is estimated to be 0.83 per cent.

Government R&D funding by objective category in 2018 to 2019

According to social policy objective category, the biggest increase in R&D funding in euros is directed to industrial production and technology, the funding increases by EUR 68.3 million in the state budget for 2019. For the majority of the objective categories, R&D funding either increases or remains on level with the previous year, but R&D funding directed to, e.g. the objective category land use, transport systems and other infrastructure, decreases by EUR 15.2 million from the budget one year ago. The biggest individual objective categories, to which R&D funding is directed, are universities’ research and development and general advancement of science, which mainly consists of the Academy of Finland’s research funding.

Among administrative sectors, research and development activities are financed most in the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment. The major provider of funding is the Ministry of Education and Culture, whose R&D funding in the budget for 2019 is EUR 1,206.1 million. The increase from the appropriations in the budget one year before is EUR 41.7 million. The R&D funding of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment also grows, by EUR 72.7 million from the budget one year earlier, a majority of which is an increase in the funding of Business Finland.

Government budget allocations for R&D (GBARD) in 2019

	R&D funding € million	Share of R&D funding, %	Change from 2018, € million	Real change from 2018, %
R&D funding total	1 991,1	100,0	107,9	3,8
Main administrative branches (ministries)
Ministry of Education and Culture	1 206,1	60,6	41,7	1,6
Ministry of Employment and the Economy	563,7	28,3	72,7	12,7
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry	54,8	2,8	1,2	0,4
Ministry of Social Affairs and Health	68,3	3,4	-1,6	-4,1
Funding organisations
Universities	630,5	31,7	14,9	0,5
Universities of applied sciences	67,6	3,4	1,3	0,0
Business Finland	451,2	22,7	59,9	13,2
Academy of Finland	470,1	23,6	25,9	3,9
Government research institutes	183,5	9,2	-5,6	-4,8
Other R&D funding	167,3	8,4	5,5	1,5
University central hospitals	21,0	1,1	6,0	37,4

Source: Government R&D funding in the state budget 2019, Statistics Finland

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• Appendix table 1. Development of central government's total expenditure and funding of RD activities in 2010 to 2019 (21.2.2019)
• Appendix table 2. Central government RD funding and total expenditure by administrative sector in 2018 and 2019 (21.2.2019)
• Appendix table 3. Central government RD funding by administrative sector in 2018 and 2019 (21.2.2019)
• Appendix table 4. Government research institutes budget-funded RD activities in 2018 and 2019 (21.2.2019)
• Appendix table 5. Government research institutes budget-funded RD activities and total RD funding in 2019 (21.2.2019)
• Appendix table 6. The share of research institutes in the RD expenditure of certain administrative sectors in 2019 1) (21.2.2019)
• Appendix table 7. Central government RD funding by administrative sector in 2008 to 2019 (21.2.2019)
• Appendix table 8. Central government RD funding by administrative sector in 2008 to 2019 (21.2.2019)
• Appendix table 9. Central government RD funding by socioeconomic objective in 2015 to 2019 (21.2.2019)

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Updated 21.2.2019