Research & Innovation
1. Main Research sectors (employment, added value, trend)
Main parameters showing the size and features of the Madrid research and innovation system are:
| 2003
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Madrid
|
Spain
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| Total researchers / thousand employees
|
7,87
|
4,38
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| Total researchers
|
23 216
|
103 617
|
| Public Universities
|
7
|
68
|
2006 Regional expenditure in R&D on GDP in Comunidad de Madrid has been the highest among Spanish regions: 1,98% .
In 2005, 30.5% of all Spanish company expenditure on Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) was in the Madrid Region.The three main research sectors, in which 100 consortia and 4000 researchers are working with companies in Madrid are Experimental and Technological Sciences, Biology, biomedicine, and Social science. Research papers from the Madrid Region published in international journals make up 28.38% of all Spanish papers, positioning the Madrid Region as the national leader. In 2005, 18.4% of all Spanish patent awards were registered in Madrid.
2. Businesses, R&D and Innovation
2. 30% of all Spanish professionals dedicated to RDI activities are located in Madrid. 60% of all Spanish
professionals dedicated to new technologies are also based in Madrid.
Private R&D Investment
The innovation activity in the firms of the CM is more intense than in the Spanish average, paying special attention in that sense to the construction and service sectors, recently included in the technological innovation survey of the INE (National Statistic Institute). Nonetheless, the obtained results according to the criterion of this poll of the INE, do not differ significantly from national average.
The expenditure of the innovation activities carried out in the CM by the industrial sector was about the 17% of the total national, while its contribution of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a 13%.
Regional Innovation Scoreboard
Community of Madrid ranks 91 in the 2006 Regional Innovation Scoreboard (RIS), with a score of 0.61 in Regional Innovation Performance (RRSII).
Due to changes in the methodology of calculating the RRSII, one needs to be careful comparing the results between the 2002, 2003 and 2006 RIS. The Comunidad de Madrid case is highlighted in the 2006 RIS report: Comunidad de Madrid shows a drop from the 9th place in 2002, to the 13th in 2003 and 31st in 2006. For Comunidad De Madrid it is primarily the change in the weight of the national component which has the biggest impact on the rank of the region. Decreasing this weight from 50% to 25% will lead to a drop of about 19 places in 2006.
3. Main R&DI inputs and outputs
Researchers
|
|
2002
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2006
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Trend
|
| National (FTE)
|
100.994
|
115.798
|
Increasing
|
| Regional (FTE)
|
23.661
|
28.100
|
Increasing
|
R&D Investment - Regional level
|
|
2002
|
2004
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2006
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Trend
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| Total expenditures (k euro)
|
2.277.822
|
2.447.465
|
3.415.991
|
Increasing
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| Public expenditures (k euro)
|
n.a
|
1060.591
|
1 332.771
|
Increasing
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| Private Expenditures (k euro)
|
n.a.
|
1.386.874
|
2.083.220
|
Increasing
|
