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Nokia has sites for investigate and development, produce and sales in many continents all through the world. As of March 2008, Nokia had R&D centers in 10 countries and employed 30,415 people in research and development, representing just about 27% of Nokia’s total labor force. The Nokia Research Center, found in 1986, is Nokia's industrial research unit of about 800 researchers, engineers and scientists. It has sites in seven countries: Finland, Germany, China, Japan, United Kingdom and United States. As well its NRCs, in 2001 Nokia founded (and owns) INdT – Nokia Institute of Technology, a R&D institute located in Brazil. Nokia's production amenities are located at Espoo, Oulu and Salo, Finland; Manaus, Brazil; Dongguan and Suzhou, China; Fleet, England; Komárom, Hungary; Chennai, India; Reynosa, Romania and Masan, South Korea. Nokia's Design section remains in Salo, Finland.

Nokia plays a very large role in the economy of Finland: it is by far the main Finnish company, accounting for about a third of the market capitalization of the Helsinki Stock Exchange (OMX Helsinki) as of 2007; a unique situation for an industrialized country. It is an important employer in Finland and more than a few small companies have grown into large ones as Nokia's subcontractors. Nokia augmented Finland's GDP by more than 1.5% in 1999 alone. In 2004 Nokia's contribute to of the Finland's GDP was 3.5% and accounted for almost a quarter of Finland's exports in 2003. In 2006, Nokia generated proceeds that for the first time exceeded the state budget of Finland.

Finns have ranked Nokia many times as the best Finnish brand and boss. The Nokia brand, appreciated at $35.9 billion, is listed as the fifth most precious global brand in Interbrand/BusinessWeek's Best Global Brands list of 2008. It is the number one brand in Asia and Europe (as of 2008), the 42nd most estimable company universal in Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies list of 2009, and is the world's 88th largest company in Fortune Global 500 list of 2008, up from 119 of the earlier year. As of 2008, AMR Research ranks Nokia's global supply sequence number two in the world.