Regions in Europe spending at least 3% of their GDP in R&D

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by slicheliche

30 comments
  1. Source: Eurostat database, 2021 (2018 for the UK).

    Note: Switzerland has no data at a regional level. However, the country as a whole surpasses the threshold and I’d wager at least Zurich, Basel and Bern are well above it.

  2. The entire map should be colored with areas showing far more spending. 3% on developing new tech really isn’t a lot. Israel spends over 5%, South Korea close to it and the US with a similar scale to the EU combined spend 3.5% nation wide.

    Can clearly see a reason why Europe has fallen behind when it comes to tech.

  3. Proof that Eastern Flanders is better than Western Flanders once again.

  4. Interesting that that is basically the list of the most developed and wealthiest countries in europe

  5. Now show how many regions spend at least 50% on pensions and social security. There is your stagnant GDPs, middle class poverty, lower class hunger, unaffordable housing for young people, no money for defense, etc.

  6. Västra Götalandregionen represent! Most innovation per capita in Sweden.

  7. That explains why Europe is being left behind but I feel like the data isn’t that accurate. There’s no way Switzerland, which almost always tops the list of the most innovative countries, isn’t spending that amount in at least one of its regions

    Switzerland had no data so that explains it

  8. Wuhuu i live right in the cluster in Germany 😂🙏

  9. Southern France has to be Airbus in Toulouse. That longish blob in the middle of Germany is where Wolfsburg and a couple of universities are. The one on the Belgian border is where rwth Aachen is located and in tiny Bremen there’s Airbus and a university. Dunno how many unis Berlin has by now

  10. OP how it is possible to have 2021 stats for France with old french regions, not exists anymore since 2015 …

  11. That has to be one of the most useless maps I have ever seen.

  12. All that money in Brabant going towards new drugs lmao

  13. R&D stands for regional development or some fancy coffeeshop?

  14. Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire is a engineering hotspot

  15. The UK doesn’t make sense, we spend 3% total, a lot of which is in in the South East and London. The three area highlighted include Oxford and Cambridge (which make sense) but the third one (Herefordshire-Warwickshire-Worcestershire) is interesting, because it’s very decentealised. It’s a combo of car dev stuff, a battery research centre and video game developers in Warwickshire. There’s a really big satellite tracking ground station in Herefordshire. Then Worcestershire has fun aerospace and defence stuff like solid fuel missiles and the place that invented thermal imaging

  16. Brabant is spending 3% of their GDP on developing new drugs for sure

  17. Saxony is part of them wow

    What do they even research there? New ways to suck Putin’s dick?

  18. OP, Please amend the name to clearly show it’s, as you’ve said, from 2021. The numbers are WILDLY inaccurate as many countries have significantly increased their defence spending side then

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