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Opinions by party political identification
Support for increasing R&D expenditure to 4% of GDP was strongest among Coalition Party and Green Party supporters. Finns Party and Centre Party supporters, on the other hand, were the strongest advocates of cuts to science and research funding. Green Party and Left Alliance supporters were most firmly against such cuts. Almost four in five Finns Party supporters were of the opinion that much unnecessary research is done in our country.
Opinions were also sharply divided over the allocation of research funding: more than half of Finns Party supporters wanted to see research funding awarded based on criteria of economic benefits, among Left Alliance and Green Party supporters this view was shared by less than one in five respondents.