{"id":611402,"date":"2025-12-04T10:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/611402\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T10:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:04:17","slug":"eu-spending-on-rd-exceeded-e403-billion-in-2024-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/611402\/","title":{"rendered":"EU spending on R&D exceeded \u20ac403 billion in 2024 – News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2024, the EU<\/a> spent an estimated \u20ac403.1 billion on research & development (R&D), indicating a 3.6% increase from 2023 (\u20ac389.2 billion). Compared with 2014, R&D expenditure grew by 62.2% from \u20ac248.6 billion, showing a steady rise in the last decade.\u00a0<\/p>\n

R&D intensity<\/a>, defined as R&D expenditure<\/a> as a percentage of GDP<\/a>, remained stable at 2.2%, similar to previous years. Between 2014 and 2024, R&D intensity in the EU increased by 0.1 percentage points<\/a> (pp).<\/p>\n

Between 2014 and 2024, R&D intensity increased in 19 EU countries, with the largest increases recorded in Belgium (+1.0 pp), Greece (+0.7 pp) and Estonia and Croatia (+0.6 pp each).<\/p>\n

In 2024, 6 EU countries registered an R&D intensity equal to or higher than 3%, the EU target set by the European Council for the EU. The highest R&D intensity was recorded in Sweden (3.6%), Belgium (3.4%), Austria (3.3%) and Finland (3.2%), followed by Germany (3.1%) and Denmark (3.0%).<\/p>\n

\"Gross<\/a><\/p>\n

Source dataset: rd_e_gerdtot<\/a><\/p>\n

By contrast, 7 EU countries reported R&D intensity below or equal to 1%: Romania and Malta (0.5% each), Cyprus (0.7%), Bulgaria (0.8%), Latvia (0.9%), and Slovakia and Luxembourg (1.0%).\u00a0
67% of R&D spending accounts for the business sector<\/p>\n

The business enterprise sector continued to account for the largest share of R&D expenditure in 2024. It represented 66.5% of EU R&D spending, totalling \u20ac268.1 billion. It was followed by the higher education sector (\u20ac86.1 billion; 21.4%), the government sector (\u20ac43.5 billion; 10.8%), and the private non-profit sector (\u20ac5.4 billion; 1.3%).<\/p>\n

\"R&D<\/a><\/p>\n

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