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Innovation 2024

Enterprises' expenditure on innovation activity close on EUR 8.2 billion in 2024

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According to Statistics Finland, 58 per cent of enterprises reported innovation activity in 2022 to 2024. Expenditure on innovation activity recorded for 2024 was close on EUR 8.2 billion, while total expenditure was EUR 7.1 billion two years earlier in 2022. Expenditure increased in all enterprise size categories of the survey.

Key selections

  • The share of enterprises with innovation activity was 58 per cent during the survey period 2022 to 2024. The share fell from the previous 2020 to 2022 survey, when it was 62 per cent.
  • In 2024, altogether 16 per cent of the total turnover of the surveyed enterprises came from innovations launched on the market in 2022 to 2024. The share was unchanged from two years before.
  • Enterprises' total expenditure on innovation activity amounted to close on EUR 8.2 billion in 2024, while two years earlier, expenditure recorded was EUR 7.1 billion.
  • The share of enterprises that had used national public funding for innovation activity fell after the ending of the separate funding during the COVID-19 period, but the share of enterprises that had used EU financial support was higher than in the previous survey. 

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Referencing instructions

Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Innovation [online publication].
Reference period: 2024. ISSN=1797-4399. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [Referenced: 29.4.2026].
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