1. Investigacion e Innovacion
Informe sobre España 2016
Investigacion e Innovacion

2. European Semester 2016
"Spain's Research and Development intensity (public and private spending) is losing ground (lowest level since 2007) with Spain's innovation performance also falling” "Available evidence also points to weak cooperation between the public and business R&I sector with poor incentives for research performance, and to duplications and gaps between national and regional research and innovation programmes."

3. Spain's R&I performance
Indicators
Spain
EU28
Rank EU
R&D intensity (GERD as % of GDP)
2014
1,20
2,03 18
Innovation Output Indicator
2016
83,70
103,60 19
Innovation Union Scoreboard
2015
0,39
0,56
Business expenditure on R&D as % GDP
0,63
1,30 17
Public expenditure on R&D as % of GDP
0,57
0,72 15
Researchers (FTE) per million of population
2626,60
3487,96 20
Share of pop with tertiary education
42,30
37,90 13
Scientific publications within 10% most cited
2010
10,66
11,41 12
International co-publications per M pop
2013
700,44
518,33 16
PCT patent applications per billion GDP €PPS
1,46
3,53
Sales new-to-market/ -firm innov % turnov.
2012
14,34
12,29 2
Share of innovative entreprises (%)
33,60
48,90 22

4. "Spain's Research and Development intensity is losing ground"
Source: EUROSTAT

5. "R&D intensity and E2020 target "

6. "Spain's innovation performance "
Innovation performance in Spain is also falling, with the country’s gap with the EU average increasing
Source: Innovation Union Scoreboard, 2015

7. "Weak coordination of central and regional government policies"
Policy is shared with REGIONS
Need for more effective coordination of central and regional government policies, including on the implementation of their RIS3
Fragmented regional landscape of bodies and programmes to foster innovation activities

8. "Incentives for research performance are also weak"
Funding to universities and public research organisations is not based on performance
Most of Spain's science funding is not reliant on international peer review

9. "Weak Public-Private cooperation"

10. "Weak Public-Private cooperation"

11. European Semester 2016 Positive Developments
Recent policies take on board some recommendations of the 2014 independent review of Spain's research and innovation system

12. ES 2016 - Positive Developments
-Recruitment policy to fill out 100% vacancies for civil servants in public research organisations -"Industrial PhD" scheme -Priority of available public funding towards global societal challenges -State Agency for Research was legally incorporated Dec Agreement between the central and regional administrations on the Map of Scientific and Technological Infrastructures (ICTS) -Slight increase of R&I funding in central government's budget law for 2016

13. Some recommendations of the independent review still pending of a specific follow up.
“Changes to the structure and management of research careers to attract and retain talent and foster mobility between research institutions and between these and the private sector”
“Linking resource allocation for research institutes and universities to results and to increase the proportion of competitive funding”
AND

14. A MARKET AND A CULTURE FOR INNOVATION "Fostering innovation should be a part of the formal mission statement of all ministries." "This goal needs to be shared by the ministries with procurement budgets and their equivalents in the Autonomous Communities."