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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 |
Last updated 21.12.2005
Official Statistics of Finland (OSF):
Patenting [e-publication].
ISSN=1797-3023. 2004,
Patent applications filed in Finland by field of technology in 2004
. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [referred: 29.10.2025].
Access method: http://stat.fi/til/pat/2004/pat_2004_2005-12-21_tau_003_en.html
