Data on research activities in Europe

By Marielk. The EU has a new resource page that features updated data (latest update in Nov 2012) on research activities in EU countries, sorted by country. The map includes a list of projects in the countries that have received EU funding or have partners in that particular country. In addition, the individual country profiles have updated information about research and innovation in these countries. While not comprehensive, they provide a quick glance to the RDI landscape in Europe.
Some interesting bits of information can be extracted from the data available. For instance, did you know that:

• Sweden invests 3.4 % of GDP in R&D,and is thus amongst the world leaders in terms of R&D intensity and as the leader of EUs Innovation scoreboard
• Researchers from Germany most commonly work together with researchers from UK in European projects, and Germany receives the largest share of EU research budget
• Denmark is  rapidly catching up in the innovation indicators and reached the 3% of GDP to research already in 2009
• In the Netherlands, the level of private investment to R&D is well below EU average, composing of 0.88% of the GDP. However, the Netherlands has a high success rate in EU applications (over 25%)
• While Italy receives fourth largest share of EU research funding, the investment to R&D in Italy is relatively modest, around 1.26% in 2010
• While Finland currently does well in the innovation rankings, there are great concerns about finding new research intensive industries
• Estonia increased funding to R&D with an average of 10% each year between 2000 and 2010, from 0.60% to 1.62% in 2010

All of the country profiles and information can be found here.