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Official Research & Development
statistics for Expenditure and
Personnel 2011 in Greece
In 2012 the general Secretariat for Research and Development appointed us the official body for
the collecting and publishing of national Research and Development statistics. Our first statistical
survey was conducted in September 2013 and thus, after a number of years’ absence, Greek statistics
were once more to be found in the Eurostat tables 2011-2012.
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After many years of absence, Greece has sent official statistics
to Eurostat for Research & Development
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R&D statistics targeted expenditure and personnel involved in research activities, in the country as
a whole and with individual analysis per activity sector, geographic area, occupation, gender etc.
Subsequently, they were included in the mandatory statistics of the European Union and Eurostat in
accordance with the European regulation 955/2012.
The best known indicator of statistics is the R&D intensity as a percentage of GDP expenditures.
The Europe ‘2020’ strategy sets a 3% objective for R&D intensity (R&D expenditure as a percentage
of GDP) .
To produce these R&D statistics, we implemented methods to develop an analytical list of Greek
organisations that carry out R&D activities, collect primary data from those organisations, conduct
extensive checks against official Greek databases, such as the Monitoring Information System,
process the statistical data and, finally, produce the indicators.
Statistics for expenditure and personnel are presented, according to Sector of Performance, in the
following tables:
