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Collection/compilation agency: General Secretariat for Research and Technology, S&T Indicators Division
Collection/compilation type: Biotechnology data are collected only through the ordinary procedures used to measure the government financing of R&D (Government Budget Appropriations or Outlays for R&D by socio-economic objectives).
Basically two distinct procedures are used in a complementary way:
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Text analysis (based on various types of data kept by government agencies which fund or administer R&D activities); and
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Carrying out of a specific Government Budget Appropriations or Outlays for R&D (GBAORD) survey (addressed to government R&D performing institutions and PNP institutions).
Data collected in this way refer to the government financing on biotechnology R&D and not to the amount of money finally spent on biotechnology by the R&D performers.
Variables: Government spending on biotechnology R&D by socio-economic objectives.
Scope: The aim is to identify all government spending on biotechnology R&D for a specific reference year. However the absence of respective data for NABS objective 10 (which includes R&D in the higher education sector financed from general purpose grants from ministries of education (General University Funds)), due to special methodological aspects of the estimation of these funds, leads to serious underestimation of the importance of biotechnology in the overall government financing of R&D.
Frequency: Annual (latest available year: 2002 (Provisional data))
Periodicity: Annual
Classification used: The classification of the objectives used is the “Nomenclature for the analysis and comparison of scientific programmes and budgets” (NABS) at sub-chapter level.
Definition used: The definition used in the survey questionnaire refers to “all activities aiming at the production of theoretical knowledge and know-how about the impact of biological factors on different materials for the production of goods or services”.
Output: Reports on Government Budget Appropriations or Outlays for R&D.
Contact comments: N/A
Future plans (plans for new collections, strategies, experiences etc.): N/A
Contact details: http://www.gsrt.gr
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