R & D expenditure in the European Union

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Sweden and Finland ahead of the other Member States for the EU 2010 R&D targets
Science and technology
Target audience: Specialised/Technical

Informations

• Publié par: EUROPEAN-COMMISSION-EUROSTAT
• Nombre de lectures: 20
• Langue: Vietnamese

Extrait

Statistics

in focus

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

2/2005

R&D Statistics

Author Simona FRANK

C o n t e n t s Sweden and Finland are ahead for the EU 2010 R&D targets .... 2

The EU's R&D intensity grew in real terms by an annual 1.48 % in the five years to 2002…........ 3

…while its R&D expenditure grew at almost 4 % in real terms during the same period ............ 4

Manuscri pt comple  ted on: 14.02.2005 ISSN 1609-5995 Catalogue number: KS-NS-05-002-EN-N © European Communities, 2005

R & D expenditure in the European Union Sweden and Finland ahead of the other Member States for the EU 2010 R&D targets

z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z Graph 1: R&D intensity (R&D expenditure as a percentage of GDP) in the EU-25, China, Japan and the United States in 2003 SE 4.27 (2001) FI 3.51 DK 2.60 2.50 DE B E 2.33 FR 2.19 2.19 A T EU-15 1.99 (2002) EU-25 1.93 (2002) NL 1.89 (2001) UK 1.87 (2002) LU 1.71 (2000) SI 1.53 CZ 1.35 IT 1.16 (2002) IE 1.12 1.11 ES HU 0.97 P T 0.79 EE 0.77 0.68 LT 0.64 (2001) EL 0.59 P L SK 0.57 LV 0.39 CY 0.33

CN JP US

1.23

(2002)

2.76

3.12

(2002)

0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 MT: n.a. .EU-25, EU-15, DE, EL, SI: estimates. BE, DK, EE, IE, CY, LT, PT, FI, US: provisional. y Sweden and Finland are ahead of most Member States in R&D expenditure with respectively 4.27% and 3.51% of R&D intensity, with more than two thirds of it being financed by the Business Enterprise Sector. yUS (2.76%) and Japan (3.12%) still have higher R&D intensities than The the EU-25 (1.93%) and China (1.23%). y In the five years to 2002, the EU's R&D expenditure grew 6.47% a year on average in million current EUR, the US's by 5.83%, Japan's by 6.19%, and China's by more than 18.51%. ymajority of EU-25 Member States' R&D expenditure underwent The sustained growth in the years to 2002, the fastest growth rates being registered by Estonia, Cyprus and Hungary, with more than 11% annual average growth in real terms.

(%)

5.0