Innovation and business performance - a provisional multi-regional analysis



Table 2: R&D Expenditure and Patent Applications for the Study Regions

Patent
applications
per capita
1996

____R&D Expenditure as % of GDP in 1996_____

Business
Sector

Government
Sector

Higher
Education

Total

Baden-Württemberg

327.55

1.00

0.34

0.42

1.76

Bavaria

270.91

1.04

0.22

0.34

1.60

Republic of Ireland

39.38

0.64

0.10

0.56

1.30

South East

132.77

1.13

0.34

0.42

1.89

Scotland

58.27

0.57

0.26

0.55

1.38

Northern Ireland

16.05

0.48

0.14

0.34

0.96

Memo Items:
Federal Republic of

181.47

0.83

0.25

0.42

1.50

Germany

United Kingdom_____

82.25

1.27

0.28

0.38

1.93

Source: Statistics in Focus, Eurostat

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