"Sweden is among the nations worldwide that devote the most money to research relative to its population. Sweden's expenditures for R&D is total 3.42% of GDP."
"Private funding sources In addition to public sources of funding, Sweden has private funding sources, foundations, and fundraising organisations. Several are major stakeholders in the research sphere and provide substantial grants for research in their respective fields. Collectively, private non profit organisations contribute SEK 3.3 billion to Swedish research."
Just contributing what I thought was some interesting info...