VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is the biggest contract research organization in Northern Europe. VTT is the Finnish acronym for " Valtion teknillinen tutkimuskeskus ", which translates as " National Technical Research Centre " means. VTT is a non-profit organization and part of the Finnish innovation system under the supervision of the Ministry of Trade and Industry.

Generally

The VTT is involved in hundreds of international and European collaborative projects. Furthermore, there are numerous collaborations with other research institutions. The VTT published about 2000 publications and 150 Displaying inventions of the year. In the past 20 years, 40 365 publications were published and in 1100 about 2,000 patents and invention disclosures. VTT has about 5700 customers, of which 3400 Finnish companies (eg Nokia), 580 foreign companies and about 400 public institutions worldwide.

Research priorities

Since VTT is amongst others active in the following research areas:

  • Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical and Food Science (Biotechnology, pharmaceutical and food industries )
  • Process industry and environment (Process industry and environment )
  • Electronics ( Electronics)
  • Energy ( Energy)
  • Pulp & Paper (Pulp & paper )
  • Information and communication technology ( ICT)
  • Machinery and Vehicles (Machines and vehicles )
  • Property and equipment (real estate and construction )
  • Service and Logistics ( Services and logistics )

Employee

The VTT is represented in the following cities:

  • Espoo (1891 employees)
  • Oulu ( 383 employees )
  • Tampere (301 employees)
  • Jyväskylä ( 129 employees )
  • Turku (36 employees)
  • Lappeenranta (14 employees)
  • Other places (26 employees)

The level of education of employees is divided into

  • University degree 75 %
  • Doctoral or licentiate 23%

Indicators

2009

  • Total annual turnover 269 million euros
  • External income 184 million euros (69% of total sales)
  • Public funding of 85 million euros (31% of total sales)
  • External income (foreign ) 37 million euros (14% of total sales)

2010

  • Total annual turnover 274 M €
  • External income 186 M € (68% of total sales)
  • Public funding of 88 M € (32% of total sales)
  • External income (foreign ) 43 M € (16% of total sales)
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