Government Budget Appropriations or Outlays for Research and Experimental Development 2014:
Increased R&D funds to higher education
Statistical news from Statistics Sweden 2014-04-09 9.30
Statistics Sweden’s forecast for R&D funds in the government budget shows that appropriations for R&D will increase by SEK 850 million in 2014 compared to 2013, at the price level of 2014. In total, R&D funds amount to SEK 32.9 billion in 2014.
A few large recipients
R&D appropriations are concentrated to a few large recipients. The largest group consists of higher education institutes which in total receive R&D appropriations at a sum of SEK 16.4 billion. This represents 50 percent of the total R&D in the government budget. The Swedish Research Council is the largest civil recipient of R&D appropriations, receiving SEK 5.8 billion or 18 percent of the total R&D appropriations. The various defence authorities receive almost SEK 1.3 billion, or nearly 4 percent of the total R&D appropriations.
Most funding for general advancement of knowledge
The R&D funding is divided up in terms of the objectives of the R&D. The objective for general advancement of knowledge receives the absolute largest part of the appropriations, about SEK 23.7 billion or 72 percent of the R&D funds in the government budget. The largest recipients of these R&D funds are the higher education institutes and the Swedish Research Council.
The objective is divided into seven sub-categories of which medicine together with mathematics and natural sciences receive more than half of the R&D funds directed towards general advancement of knowledge. Technology, agricultural sciences, social sciences, humanities and cross-disciplinary sciences make the list complete.
Definitions and explanations
Research is systematic work to find new knowledge or ideas with or without the aim of a particular purpose.
Development work is a systematic work that uses research results, scientific knowledge or new ideas to bring about new material, goods, services, processes, systems, methods or significant improvements of those that already exist.
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