Eurostat/R&D expenditure in the EU remained stable in 2016 at just over 2% of GDP/1 Δεκέμβριος 2017
In 2016, the Member States of the European Union (EU) spent all together over €300 billion on Research & Development (R&D). The R&D intensity, i.e. R&D expenditure as a percentage of GDP, remained stable at 2.03% in 2016. Ten years ago (2006), R&D intensity was 1.76%. With respect to other major economies, R&D intensity in the EU was much lower than in South Korea (4.23% in 2015), Japan (3.29% in 2015) and the United States (2.79% in 2015), while it was about the same level as in China (2.07% in 2015) and much higher than in Russia (1.10% in 2015) and Turkey (0.88% in 2015). In order to
provide a stimulus to the EU’s competitiveness, an increase by 2020 of the R&D intensity to 3% in the EU is one of the five headline targets of the Europe 2020 strategy.
Σχετικές Αναρτήσεις
- Bjon Lomborg, (2017), «The R&D Road to Development», Project Syndicate, 22 Νοέμβριος
- Veugelers, Reinhilde, (2016), «Getting the most from public R&D spending in times of budgetary austerity», Bruegel, 24 Φεβρουάριος