Public R&D spending - Energy sector (share of GBAORD)

Short description

The indicator measures the share of total Government Budget Appropriations or Outlays on R&D related to the “Energy” sector.

GBAORD data are measuring government support to research and development (R&D) activities, or, in other words, how much priority Governments place on the public funding of R&D. (Eurostat)

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Unit:

Share of total GBOARD

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Bosnia and Herzegovina

Original data

Data:

Related R&D_Energy_shareGBOARD.csv

Unit for original data:

Share of total GBOARD

Date of extraction:

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Data source link:

Eurostat

Rationale

Government spending on research and development (R&D) is an important input for innovation. We present data on government spending on R&D for the areas of environment and energy. The indicators are both supplied in relation to GDP per capita in Purchasing Power Standards as well as in the form of the share of Government budget appropriations or outlays for research and development (GBOARD).1

1. Eurostat 2015. ‘Government Budget Appropriations or Outlays on R&D (gba)’. Accessed October 8. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/metadata/en/gba_esms.htm

Limitations

The indicators are at a very aggregated level. This makes it difficult to relate government spending on R&D to the more granular perspective on innovation subsystems aimed for by the Scoreboard. The provision of more disaggregated indicators by Eurostat could support the future programming of research, development and innovation funding. However, the categories underlying the gathering of country data are currently not fit for such a purpose. They are based on the Frascati Manual by the OECD.1 While the updating of these categories would be desirable, such coordinative processes typically take a lot of time and can be politically charged. A possibility could be for Eurostat to survey novel categories in parallel to the OECD categories.

1. OECD. 2002. Frascati Manual. Proposed Standard Practice for Surveys on Research and Experimental Development. Paris: OECD Publishing.

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Public R&D spending - Energy sector (share of GBAORD)

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The indicator is relevant to the following innovation systems on this website

Bioeconomy

Energy efficiency

Fossil fuel efficiency

Renewable energy