EUROSTAT STI Statistics

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EUROSTAT STI Statistics

• R D Statistics
• Innovation Statistics
• Human Resources in S T
• Statistics on High-tech industry and knowledge
  based services
• Statistics on Gbaord
• Patent Statistics

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EUROSTAT STI Statistics

• R D Statistics
• Ongoing data collection activities in enlarging
  data collection ( on R D personnel and R D
  expenditure in accordance with numerous
  breakdowns)
• Enlarging to candidate countries
• Data production in May 2003
• Production of publications (Statistics in Focus,
  Panorama)

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EUROSTAT STI Statistics

• Innovation Statistics
• CIS 3 production of results, release very soon
• More frequent innovation statistics
• Oslo manual revision
• Preparation of the CIS 4
• Publications (Statistics in Focus, Panorama)

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EUROSTAT STI Statistics

• Statistics on Human Resources in Science and
  Technology
• Regular data production on the base of the
  Community Labour Force survey results
• Trial to produce data on mobility, but quality
  problems, work will be continued
• Further work will be done in exploiting better
  other official data sources (e.g. census data)
• Launching of a much larger project possible

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EUROSTAT STI Statistics

• Statistics on high tech industry and knowledge
  based services
• Production of results on the base of Structural
  Business Statistics, external trade statistics
  and other official sources
• Internationally agreed nomenclature used
• Publications ( Panorama, Statistics in
  Focus,etc.)

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EUROSTAT STI Statistics

• Statistics on Government appropriations and
  outlays on R D (Gbaord)
• Regular (annual data production) on the base of
  EU 15 and candidate countries
• Broken down by socio-economic objectives (NABS
  classification)
• Problems with data quality and user needs
• NABS classification will be reviewed (together
  with the OECD)

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EUROSTAT STI Statistics

• Patent Statistics
• Raw data of patent offices used (EPO, USPTO)
• Till now production of regional patent statistics
  and patent statistics on the base of the IPC
• In the future together with the OECD get into a
  regular production of high quality patent
  statistics (allocated at Nace/ISIC, enterprise
  group, region, sector..)

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EUROSTAT STI Statistics

• In addition
• Community legislation on STI statistics in
  preparation
• Working group on STI statistics
• Publication program ( New Cronos, theme 9,
  Panorama, other publications)
• Attention large STI indicator publication just
  released by DG RTD of the European Commission

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EUROSTAT STI Statistics

• Conclusion
• Broad statistical activities on STI statistics
  
• Expanding area due to increasing user needs (e.g.
  R D intensity 3 target)
• Good progress expected in data quality due to the
  legislation
• User needs sometimes a moving target