Concessional finance which is not country-allocable are often support towards research at universities and research institutions in donor countries or core support to NGOs or other entities with a global or regional mandate. A greater share of technology-oriented development finance is allocated to countries compared to support to research. Most of the increase in concessional finance to STI can be attributed to support to research institutions, which tend to have a global focus. Support to countries have remained rather stable since 2010 with most research spending aimed to benefit LDCs and LMICs.