VTT in brief

VTT is a broad science cluster with research within applied materials, chemical and biochemical processes, energy, industrial systems management, information and communication technologies, microtechnology and electronics.

By Totta Kasemo

November 24, 2009 12:00 AM

Here are the numbers:

EUR 245 million in turnover

EUR171 million in external income

Basic government funding. EUR 74 million

EUR 36 million in income from abroad

VTT has recieved patent applications for over 1,200 inventions during its history

Over the past 20 years: approximately 1,000 domestic and over 1,800 foreign patent applications, over 2,300 notifications of inventions, 49,774 publications.

Scientific publications: 1,112 (2008), 1,162 (2007), 881 (2006).

Staff: approximately 2,700

Employee profiles:

University degree: 77 percent

Doctors and licentiates: 24 percent

64 research scientists on assignment abroad 161 foreign visiting research scientists at VTT

Customers: 6,200

Customer profiles:

3,400 domestic companies

590 foreign companies

370 public organizations in Finland and abroad

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