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R&D statistics Scientific research and development activities in Slovenia are relatively well developed compared to other countries in Central and Eastern Europe.Figures for 2005 reveal that the number of researchers per 1,000 workers was only slightly below the EU average. By international standards, some sciences in Slovenia have reached the highest levels (e.g. biochemistry, physics, biology, pharmaceutics and mathematics). The number of scientific publications per million people in Slovenia is above the average recorded in the EU. According to the estimate, in 2006 the share of gross domestic expenditure on R&D (GERD) in GDP was 1.59%, which is 8.9 per cent more than in 2005. Regarding investment in R&D, Slovenia is close to the EU average (1.84 per cent in 2006). The main strengths of Slovenian research and development (R&D) are: R&D intensity (GERD as % of GDP), 2006 Source: Eurostat R&D intensity in the new Member States is on average lower than in EU-27. Although R&D intensity is above 1.5% for the Slovenia and Czechia, the rest of the new Member States returned figures below 1% in 2006. Average annual real growth (%) of gross domestic expenditure on R&D (GERD), 1995-2005 Source: Eurostat Slovenia, Austria, Denmark, Italy, Latvia and Luxembourg represent a second group of low R&D intensive countries. Up to 2000, R&D intensity in these countries was increasing much faster than average. Their catching-up process, however, has slowed (Slovenia) or has even come to an end (Czech Republic, Latvia, Portugal and Greece) after 2000. GERD financed by business enterprise and by government as % of GDP Source: European commission; Towards a European Research Area - Science, Technology and Innovation For the countries with established high R&D intensities, growth was exclusively driven by the business sector (Denmark, Sweden, Germany), whereas in Belgium, Austria, Spain, Slovenia, France and Finland, government-funding also played an important role. R&D expenditure by main sources of founds (%), 2005 Source: Eurostat The sources of finance are more balanced in the new Member States. In these countries the share of the government sector is as well important as the BES. R&D funding Gross domestic expenditure on R&D (GERD) as a percentage of GDP, 2000-2006 Source: Eurostat GERD, by source of funding, 2005 Source: Eurostat Human resources for R&D Researchers employed by main field of science, 2005 Source: Eurostat According to the survey on research and development there were 9,506 persons employed in 2003; the number of persons employed increased to 10,155 in 2004 and to 9,444 persons employed in R&D in 2005. R&D output indicators Number of scientific publications per million of population, 2003 Source: European commission; Towards a European Research Area - Science, Technology and Innovation; Key Figures 2005 Within Europe, the ratio is particularly high in the three Nordic countries. The new Member States can be found at the lowest end of the scale, except for Slovenia which is well above the EU average. European patents per million of population, 2003 Source: Eurostat Most of the new EU Member States remain at a rather low level of national patenting, measured as EPO patent applications per million inhabitants. Slovenia is an exception to the rule with 52 patent applications per million inhabitants in 2003. The core part of the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) is the calculation of the Summary Innovation Index (SII), which makes it possible to divide the EU-25 Member States into four groups depending on their innovation performance: Leading countries: Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Germany Average performance: France, Luxembourg, Ireland, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Norway, Italy and Iceland. Catching up: Slovenia, Hungary, Portugal, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Latvia, Greece, Cyprus and Malta. Losing ground: Estonia, Spain, Bulgaria, Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Turkey. |
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