The Research Institute of Industrial Economics obtains its financing from a number of private foundations, organizations and corporations.
Research funding is provided by:
The Academy of Finland’s mission is to fund high-quality scientific research, provide expertise in science and science policy, and strengthen the position of science and research. We are an agency within the administrative branch of the Finnish Ministry of Education, Science and Culture.
The trade association Almega contributes with financing of research on the service sector at the institute.
Formas, the Swedish research council for sustainable development, promotes and supports research within the areas Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning. The research comprises basic research, need-driven research and innovation.
Forte (Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare)
The mission is to promote the accumulation of knowledge in matters relating to working life and the understanding of social conditions and processes. This is achieved through promotion and support of basic and applied research, identification of important research needs, dialogue, dissemination of information and transfer of knowledge, and promotion of cooperation between researchers both nationally and internationally, particularly in EU programmes.
IFN is one of nine European research institutes collaborating in the entrepreneurial research project FIRES (Financial and Institutional Reforms for an Entrepreneurial Society) financed by the European Union. The project aims to formulate practical reform proposals for an including and sustainable growth in Europe.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), is a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.The NIH provides financial support in the form of grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts to support the advancement of the NIH mission to enhance health, extend healthy lives, and reduce the burdens of illness and disability. We encourage submission of unique projects of high scientific calibre.
NORFACE (New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Co-operation in Europe)
New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Co-operation in Europe (NORFACE) is a collaborative partnership of national research funding agencies from 19 European countries in the area of social and behavioral sciences.
Public Services in the Future
From July 2015, IFN runs a project on the production and financing of public services. Currently, the financiers are Ambea, Attendo, Bräcke diakoni, EQT, Ersta diakoni, Humana, Internationella Engelska Skolan, Investor, Magnora, Nordic Capital, Norrköpings kommun, Praktikertjänst, Region Östergötland, SEB Trygg Liv, SKL, Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth and Uppsala Municipality.
Silicon Valley Community Foundation is a comprehensive center of philanthropy. With visionary leadership, strategic grantmaking and world-class expertise, we partner with donors to strengthen the common good locally and throughout the world.
The Swedish Energy Agency operates in various sectors of society to create conditions for an efficient and sustainable energy use and a cost-effective Swedish energy supply.
The Swedish Energy Research Centre is a research and knowledge-based company that operates and coordinates energy research. The centre strives to be the natural hub of energy research - a neutral party for the benefit of future energy systems. The centre has extensive experience in energy-related research and development by the companies and research organizations that now constitute the Swedish Energy Research Institute.
The Swedish Research Council is an authority that develops and finances basic research and information about research of the highest quality in all scientific areas.
The Research Institute of Industrial Economics obtains about 30 percent of its financing from the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise.
The goal of the foundation is to support research within the social sciences, mainly in economic history, economic geography, business administration, economics and econometrics.
The foundation mainly supports teaching, education and research in the areas of medicine, economics, natural sience, law and culture.
The purpose of the foundation is to support care and fostering of children, support education and learning and support scientific research.
The Millenium Foundation
The purpose of the foundation is to, by support of education, promote work against youth violence and to promote scientific research and culture.
The aim of the Ragnar Söderberg Foundation is to promote scientific research and scientific education or educational work, especially in the areas of economics, medicine and legal sciences.
The Sven Svensson Foundation for numismatics has, in no particular order, the purpose of purchasing items that are missing in the Royal Coin Cabinet’s collection, contributing to the issuance of publications that serve Swedish numismatic research, and to support researchers in this field.
The Swedish Competition Authority is working to safeguard and increase competition and supervise public procurement in Sweden.
The Swedish Retail and Wholesale Development Council is one of Sweden’s largest financiers of research in the area of wholesale and retail. The main purpose it to develop and strengthening the academic retail and wholesale research. The aim is also to increase the knowledge of wholesale and retail, for the benefit of companies, employees, customers and society.
The aim of the Torsten Söderberg Foundation is to promote scientific research and scientific education or educational work, especially in the areas of economics, medicine and legal sciences.
VINNOVA, Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems, is Sweden’s innovation agency. Their aim is to increase the competitiveness of Swedish researchers and companies.