A More Attractive European Research Area but Stagnating EU R&D Intensity
added: 2009-01-23
The 2008 Science, Technology and Competitiveness key figures report provides for the first time an overview of progress from 2000 to 2006 in both EU R&D investment and in implementing the European Research Area. It shows that Europe's pool of researchers is growing and the EU is becoming more attractive for foreign researchers and for private R&D investments from the US. However, the stagnation of the EU-27's R&D intensity (R&D expenditure as % of GDP) at 1.84% is denting the EU's ambition to become a globally competitive knowledge-based society.
