5/01 STATISTIQUES EN BREF - SCIENCE ET TECHNOLOGIE

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How much do Governments budget for R&D activities? Benchmarking Europe, the US and Japan Statistics Ibrahim LAAFIA in focus Figure 1: GBAORD as a % of total general government expenditure, 1999 SCIENCE AND 2.5 TECHNOLOGY i 2.03 THEME 9 - 5/2001 Contents Finland budgets more government finance to R&D than other EU countries 2 General University Funds: the lion's share of EU GBAORD 3 UK NL D EU-15 E I IRL EL Europe's place in the Triad: Source: Eurostat both convergence and decline 4 • In 1999, Finland budgeted more to R&D activities than any other EU Differing socio-economic country, measured as a proportion of its total general government priorities in the Triad 5 expenditure. • Correcting for inflation, total EU Government budget appropriations or outlays for R&D were alsmost stable in 2000 relative to 1990. When civil GBAORD experienced a slight increase between 1990 and 2000, budgets towards "Defence" saw a sharp decrease during the last decade. Government budget appropriations or outlays on R&D are all • The socio-economic objective 'Social structures and relationships' has appropriations allocated to R&D in seen the highest absolute growth at the EU level in the last five years, central government or federal with Germany accounting for over 30 % of EU budgeting in 2000, the UK budgets and therefore refer to 20 % and Italy close to 13 %. budget provisions, not to actual expenditure.

Sujets

• Research and development
• Public administration
• Comparison
• Economic statistics
• Union européenne
• United States
• Japan (manga)
• Economie gestion

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