Evaluation of JTI's R&D Activities 2005–2008 - Formas

This decrease has had limited influence on the total budget
of commissions from stakeholders. JTI has taken measures
to increase its attractiveness to stakeholders and to find new
stakeholders and clients in the field of environmental technologies
(Action Plan for 2008).
Development in yearly turnover
The average yearly turnover in the period 2004 – 2007
amounts to 28.9 M SEK, with a sharp decrease in the year
2005 to a turnover of 24.7 M SEK, due to the difficulties in
funding from industry resources. The yearly turnover shows a
slight increase, but the increase is significantly lower than the
target set for the different years. Base funding from Formas
and SJMF has increased in the evaluation period by approx.
13 %. During 2004 –2007 base funding comprised 40 % of
JTI’s turnover.
A comparison of the base funding of JTI with two other
institutions in this area:
• In the year 2006, base funding for the Applied research
group “Plant and Environment” amounted to approx. 70 %
(Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality 40 %
+ 30 % from Commodity Boards) with a yearly turnover
of 41 M € ( part of Plant Sciences Group within Wageningen
University and Research centre)*
• A well known R&D institute in the area of Agricultural
and Environmental Engineering in Germany has achieved
an average 18 % of commissions, or in other words 82 %
of the budget was financed by the national and regional
governments. This means that, in comparison with the
above institutes in Europe – and maybe also with SLU–
the base funding of JTI is still very moderate to low.
A remark can be made concerning the “base funding part”
from SJMF which is used for projects, which, according to the
definition of the financing of research, is not base funding.
The number of stakeholders – as already mentioned – is
declining by approx. 30 %. The breadth of the working areas
of JTI is reflected in the breadth of the working fields of the
members of SJMF. Especially for new developments it can be
of value that the scoping studies or global surveys should be
carried out as commissions from Formas.
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Evaluation of JTI’s R&D Activities 2005–2008