Sweden accounts for half of the Nordic covid-19 research

Sweden has invested almost as much funding in research on covid-19 as the other Nordic countries combined, writes the Swedish Research Council’s magazine Curie. According to a survey from Nordforsk, which Curie refers to, there are also major differences in how the countries have distributed the money between different subjects. Sweden, for example, has chosen to invest 80 percent of its funds in medical research, while Norway has invested 67 percent in research in the social sciences. Gunnar Öquist, Professor Emeritus at Umeå University, highlights the large private funds in Sweden as a possible explanation for Sweden having invested more money than the other Nordic countries.