R&D Survey in Portugal: Provisional results
The GPEARI/MCTES released the official provisional results of the national R&D Survey for 2007
The GPEARI (Planning, Strategy, Evaluation and International Relations Office) / MCTES (Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education) released the official provisional results of the national R&D Survey for 2007 (IPCTN 07), concerning the human and financial resources dedicated to R&D activities in Portugal.
The results for 2007, which are still provisional, show:
- An increase in the total R&D expenditure, which now globally represents, for the first time, 1.2% of the national GDP. This means that Portugal was the country with the highest increase in the R&D expenditure between 2005 and 2007, reaching a level similar to Spain (1.2%), close to Ireland (1.3%) and higher than the data available for Italy (1.1%).
- An increase in the R&D expenditure in the business enterprise sector, which surpassed, for the first time, the total R&D expenditure of the institutional sector.
- An increase in the number of enterprises with R&D activities, which rose from 930 to more than 1500 between 2005 and 2007.
- An increase in the number of researchers (in “full time equivalents”, or FTE), reaching a global value which doubled in ten years (from 14,000 FTE in 1997 to about 28,000 in 2007. In the business enterprise sector, in particular, the value more than doubled between 2005 and 2007 (rising from 4,000 to 8,600).
- An increase in the number of researchers in the active population (from 3.8 ‰ in 2005 to 5 ‰ in 2007).
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