Received:
2021-11-15 | Accepted:
2022-01-24 | Published:
2022-03-30
Title
R&D expenditure, innovation performance and economic development of the EU countries
Abstract
Innovation plays the key role in economic development and also in the growth of the wealth of countries. Innovation is the driving force of each economy, competitiveness of the economy and a main essential component of the knowledge economy, which is based on the production of higher added value and support of the research and development (R&D). Therefore, the European Union with an effort to compete with other world economies is creating the frameworks of innovation policy in order to implement, maintain and disseminate innovation and innovative potential in all areas of socio-economic life. However, the innovation performance and potential differ significantly among the EU countries, and so the wealth of the countries. The main objective of the research made was to identify and quantify the possible impact of R&D expenditure on innovation performance and possible impact of the innovation performance on economic development of the EU countries. To achieve this goal a set of statistical methods was used, main of which is regression and correlation. In the result of our research, we have shown a significant interdependence between R&D expenditure, innovation performance and level of economic development of the EU countries.
Keywords
economic impact, innovation performance, R&D expenditure, real GDP per capita, economic development of the countries, EU
JEL classifications
O11
, O30
URI
http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/946
DOI
Pages
227-241
Funding
This article was created within the research project of the Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sports of the Slovak Republic and Slovak Academy of Sciences, No. 1/0466/21 - Evaluation of business quality environment in Slovakia with an emphasis on starting a business in the pre- and post-pandemic period.
This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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